. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 51-55. Forests and forestry. On the oilier hand the private owner already has the idle land which the Slate could purchase, and he is paying taxes on this land continually wilh no net return. From this point of view the private owner is investing only ihe planting cost of trees and his own lahor. And for cost of supervision the private owner has the ad- vantage of heing ahle to look after his trees and protect them while doing other work on his property, and at little extra cost. riiere are returns other than timher that must ofte
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 51-55. Forests and forestry. On the oilier hand the private owner already has the idle land which the Slate could purchase, and he is paying taxes on this land continually wilh no net return. From this point of view the private owner is investing only ihe planting cost of trees and his own lahor. And for cost of supervision the private owner has the ad- vantage of heing ahle to look after his trees and protect them while doing other work on his property, and at little extra cost. riiere are returns other than timher that must often enter the problem and they alone often affect the decision to reforest. A clear case in the water or power company protecting its reservoir from muddy water and silt. Here reforestation is a cheap method of securing these results and the timher product is a rich bonus. The same is true of many farms where side hill wash is coming down and ruining valuable fertile^ lower slope and bottom lands. Reforest- ing these upper slopes is essential in preserving the better lands and the timber product is again a bonus. Areas for Which the State Should be Responsible From the practic^al standpoint of protection and administration the State is limited to handling blocks of reforestation land of 400 or 500 acres and more, now immediately contiguous or near enough to buihl sometime into a c^ontiguou-* holding, in purchasing idle cleared land, the Slate would acquire much forest land attached to these properties as well as much land not listed as idle but now farmed at a loss. The ]30,0(K) acres of idle land listed in Table 2 as occur- ring in 5()0-acre blocks or larger may be taken, therefore, as only a beginning of this work. Un<loubtedly 300,000 acres of all three classes I idle (dear, attached forest, and submarginal grazing and farm land I will be available to the State for successful reforestation. In iidilitlitii idio r'lf»ar land Hdja**«»iit to present State Forests in anv siz
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