A Proposed System of State Forests for California to Help Solve Cutover Land and Future Unemployment Problems

Key Points

The proposed system aims to restore productivity to California's cutover land and mitigate unemployment.
Initial appropriations for the bill are under consideration by the state legislature, following general approval.
The proposal was first introduced to the State Board of Forestry in October 1941 and received their endorsement.
This initiative aligns environmental restoration with economic support for a post-wax unemployment recovery.

Abstract

Abstract To accomplish the dual purpose of restoring productivity to California's cutover lands and absorbing some of the shock of post-wax unemployment, the author urges a system of state forests created by purchasing one million of California's five million acres of cutover land. First presented by him to the State Board of Forestry in October, 1941, and given its approval, the proposal has met with general favor and a bill to provide initial appropriations is now before the legislature. In this paper the author justifies and describes the proposed program.

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