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Show 359 management41 by the Secretary of the Interior for specified purposes, including "protecting watersheds," and "regulating stream flow." *¦ A few years later, similar but broader principles appeared in legislation national in scope, the 1944 Sustained-Yield Forest Management Act.43 In authorizing the Secretaries of Agricul- ture and the Interior to provide for cooperative sustained-yield forest management of lands under their respective jurisdictions together with privately owned forest land, Congress included among specified forestry objectives, the securing of the benefits of the forests: ** in maintenance of water supply, regulation of stream flow, prevention of soil erosion, amelioration of climate, and preservation of wildlife. Both of these statutes, it should be observed, make provision for cooperative arrangements between the Federal Government and private owners for treatment of federal and nonfederal forested lands. Also, the 1944 Act accords a preference in tim- ber-cutting privileges on federal lands to private owners who agree to carry out prescribed forest-conservation practices on their own lands.48 Cooperative Forest Management Act.-The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cooperate with state forest officials to encourage the providing of technical services to private for- est landowners and processors of primary forest products with 41 "As applied to a policy, method, or plan of forest management, means continuous production with the aim of achieving, in the earliest practicable time, an approximate balance between net growth and harvest, either by annual or somewhat longer periods." Fobest Terminoiogy, Society of American Foresters, p. 83 (1944). ° Act of August 28, 1937, 50 Stat. 874. The Oregon and California lands and Coos Bay Lands in Oregon were originally granted by the United States to a railroad company and to the State of Oregon, respectively, to promote the construction of a railroad and a military wagon road. Act of July 25, 1866, § 2, 14 Stat. 239; Act of March 3, 1869, § 1, 15 Stat. 340. Congress later cancelled these grants, and title was revested in the United States. Act of June 9, 1916, 39 Stat. 218, and Act of February 26, 1919, § 1,40 Stat. 1179. See 43 C. F. R. 115.2,115.7. * Act of March 29,1944,58 Stat. 132,16 U. S. C. 583-5831. " § 1, 58 Stat. 132, 16 U. S. C. 583. 45 § 2, 58 Stat. 132,16 U. S. C. 583a. |