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Show Increasing I merest In New Forests The nai'iona'l forestry department '.ninis .good progress is 'being made i providing for production of future err. ps of timber for the lumber, paper and pulp industries, buts its cam. paign is being hindered by unstable forest, policies in many timbered states. Many countries in ithe timbered tim-bered stales that des-ire to have tax-' tax-' everted lands put on the assessors' :olls, are also partly responsible. New Yoi:k and Pennsylvania leai Ml Eastern States with over 3,000,-OOC 3,000,-OOC aores under reforestation, and are adding to the areas devoted to ' rowing new timber crops. Several Western states aire acquiring acquir-ing units of timberland in exchange '.'or scattered school lands in national forests, and growing solid blocks of ur-w timber, covering thousands of .rare mile3. In ail the states there is increasing i Herost in renewing forest growth ty 'cdoral. state and private activi-i activi-i rs. and promotion of public measures, meas-ures, sound policies and removal cf ndue obstacles and handoaps. E ;ui?rrh'? taxation of tjlmberland, I'.lch trxej timber as a crop when rarvc-s-ied instead of '.oadfng it wit l :i r nnual tax 'which in the aggregate :a;,f'scates the value of c trees, ' hrir,g adopted in many states, and is indispensable part of any penna-j uent reforestation policy. |