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Assembly to create a state agency to develop a forestry program.” Custard said the first efforts of this agency, now known as the Virginia Division of Forestry, a division of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, were directed toward forest fire prevention and a strengthening of the several cooperative forest fire protection associations formed by large landowners.
FOREST fire control was and will continue to be the basic element of forest resource management, said Custard. The Clarke-McNary Act helped to point the way for closer cooperation among the forestland owners, general public, forest industries, and local, state, and Federal governments, he added.
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