NEW FOREST FRONTIERS for: Jobs, Permanent Communities, A Stronger Nation

OUR CHOICE is between continued depletion of the forest resource on one hand, and on the other, a national effort of reconstruction, a new frontier, new and permanent opportunities for employment and income, and an abundance of resources essential to the welfare and defense of our country. F-372296

Flagstaff, Ariz., a permanent forest community.

WE CAN have permanent industry and stabilized communities— F-396961

OR GHOST towns. F-306105

WE CAN have unemployment, dejection, despair— FSA-16153E

OUR JOBS and security for the large section of our population dependent upon forest industry—and better citizens for a stronger nation. F-382739, A F-381485, B F-383224, C F-395264, D F-381478

THE FOREST situation requires public cooperation, Federal and State, to aid private owners in such things as forest protection, research, forest extension, reforestation, forest credits, more equitable taxation, establishing cooperatives, etc. The primary purposes of public cooperation are to help overcome obstacles and to stimulate private action.

But reasonable public controls are also needed to insure cooperation of private owners sufficient to stop deterioration and destruction of the resource, to keep the lands reasonably productive, and to safeguard the public interest and public investments in forest lands.

The situation also calls for community, State, and Federal acquisition of problem areas, improved administration of national forests, and an adequate forest-research program to serve the consuming public and all forest landowners and users.