The Copeland Report was the result of a

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ional investigation of

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for the purpose of outlining a coordinated plan that would "insure all of the economic and social benefits which can and should be derived from productive forests by fully utilizing the forest land." The investigation was called for by Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York in Senate Resolution 175 (72d Congress, 1st sess., 1932) Earle Clapp, later Chief Forester of the

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, supervised the report. "A Period of Rapid Progress 1918-1941"
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for forestry in President

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and had its beginnings in a senatorial discussion of unemployment, where reforestation might be a source for jobs.Steen, pp.199–202 Previous reports had given the state of the forests, but without offering a plan for improvement. In the Copeland Report the main recommendations were: (1) A large extension of

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of forest lands, and (2) more intensive management on all forest lands.

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References

*Godfrey, Anthony. ''The Ever-Changing View: A History of the National Forests in California''. USDA Forest Service Publishers, 2005. . *Steen, Harold K. ''The U.S. Forest Service: A History''. University of Washington Press, 1976. {{ISBN, 0-295-95523-6. Environmental reports United States federal public land legislation