Show CONSERVING FORESTS The chamber of commerce of the UnIted States has taken the pod Lion that the major task of pro pro- providIng providing vidIng ample supplies of woo wood l for future use of the nation should rest upon private enterprise and that all agencies federal state and private should operate co-operate to this end The chamber advocates Adequate forest tire lire prevention I Taxation of growIng timber upon the of oC the yIeld tax Increased federal research ties National inventory In of forest re re- resources sources State forestry departments Forest management aimed to see se secure cure continuous forest production of waste aste lands lands not reproducing at waters of navigable streams by the federal government of other waste wastelands wastelands lands by states and munIcipalities not give ghe much s apace ace to the forest service Ice ot of the United States which has done more than all other agencies to conserve conser the forest resources of thIs country Without the forest service senke operating during the past ast quarter of n a century the United States mIght have seen the forest area aren reduced to a very narrow mar mar- gin |