Excerpt from Instability of Forest Land Ownership in Western Oregon and Washington, 1932-41 By 1950 unstable forest land ownership attracted national attention, It seemed to be most critical in the Lake States and the South, It was approaching a critical stage in the Pacific Northwest, Some private land was going back to the counties, some to the States, and some to the Feder= al government, Land was reported as reverting to public ownership in such -condition that it could neither yield the taxes levied against it nor, without organized management, recompense the public in any degree for the public debts accumulated on it, For the most part there was no adequate plan for handling this land, As'a result, local political organization was upset and the economic foundations of communities and regions were undermined, Tax=reverted land areas far exceeded in magnitude the public programs of acquisition for forest purposes, e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.