Abstract Now that the white pine blister rust has definitely shown its virulence and potential danger in the West, and control methods and costs are known within limits, the huge problem of actually effecting control directs forcible attention to the justification of the expense. The author discusses the business side of control measures for both federal and private forest lands. The government cannot afford not to protect its white pine from blister rust; it is not so easy to demonstrate the business feasibility on private lands. Protection on private land is the most urgent and difficult forestry problem. The author believes large-scale federal acquisition and protection to be the solution.
Elers Koch (Fri,) studied this question.