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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on or threatening lands under Forest Service administration, including lands under contract for purchase or in process of condemnation for Forest Service purposes, and unappropriated public forest lands, $100,000, which amount shall also be available for meeting obligations of the preceding fiscal year. Forest research: For forest research in accordance with the pro- visions of sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to insure adequate supplies of timber and other forest products for the people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricul- tural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects", approved May 22, 1928, as amended (16 U. S . C . 581, 581a, 581f-581i), as follows: Forest management: Fire, silvicultural, and other forest investi- gations and experiments under said section 2, as amended, at forest experiment stations or elsewhere, $506,348. Range investigations: Investigations and experiments to develop improved methods of management of forest and other ranges under section 7, at forest or range experiment stations or elsewhere, $288,475. Forest products: Experiments, investigations, and tests of forest products under section 8, at the Forest Products Laboratory, or else- where, $1,147,519. Forest survey: A comprehensive forest survey under section 9, $156,246. Forest economics: Investigations in forest economics under section 10, $84,018. Forest influences: For investigations and experiments at forest experiment stations or elsewhere for determining and demonstrating the influence of natural vegetative cover characteristic of forest, range, or other wild land on water conservation, flood control, stream-flow regulation, erosion, climate, and maintenance of soil productivity, and for developing preventive and control measures therefor, $86,762. FOREST-FIRE COOPERATION For cooperation with the various States or other appropriate agencies in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the protection of timbered and cut-over lands in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the con- tinuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor", approved June 7, 1924, as amended (16 U. S. C . 564-570), $6,300,000, of which not to exceed $71,000 and $5,000 shall be available for personal services and for the purchase of supplies and equipment, respectively, in the District of Columbia: Provided,That the Secretary may authorize expenditures not to exceed $1,000,000 from this appro- priation for preventing and suppressing forest fires on extremely critical areas of national importance without requiring an equal expenditure by the State and private owners. FARM AND OTHER PRIVATE FORESTRY COOPERATION To enable the Secretary (1) to carry into effect, through such agen- cies of the Department as he may designate, the provisions of the 445 45 Stat. 699. Ante, p. 265. 16 U. .C. i581a. 16U. S.C. 5811. 16U. S. C.§581g. 16 U.S. C. 581h. 16U.S. C. §581i. 43 Stat. 6M3. Ante. p. 216: post, p. 736. Critical areas of n3atioal importance.

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