Forestry
the act, occupation, or art of forming and cultivating forests; the subordinate courts. improvement in productive capacity of trees in masses, including the planting and culture of new forests. Not only private interest exists in forests but a public interest, which necessitates at trees in masses, including the planting and culture of new forests. Not only rests on the following principles: (1) public interest, which necessitates at The widest scope should be allowed to private enterprise in production, care regard to supply and demand and opporbeing taken that abundant statistics in tunity for education on the subject be furnished. (2) Adequate legal protection should be given to forest property. (3) Whenever improper management threatens damage to neighboring property the State should interfere to enforce proper nuded tracts, the State should assist fare demands the reforestation of denuded tracts, the State should assist ing as a work of internal improvement. (5) In cases where a permanent forest is desirable and private interest can not the State should own and manage it.
There were, in 1920, 152 National Forests, embracing 180,299,776 acres, of which a little over 86 per cent. is public land. By the act of February 26, 1919, created. For this purpose 606,720 acres were transferred from other National Forests. For a discussion of conserva- See also NATIONAL PARKS, and FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN.
ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN.