Marshall, 1939 Whitaker's Forest, Nov. 17-17 their attitude is that they want to burn off the brush and allow grass to grow there. My reply cited all the work that had been done in attempt- ing to find grasses that would cover this type of country; so far none had been found. The consequence of burning are that the soil is rapidly washed away, a new stand of brush comes up (not as good as before) and so on until the land goes to desert (or changes). If the land is left alone and the top-soil allowed to stay the vegetation will gradually (many years) go thru the stages of succession to the yellow pine forest again. Then the land will be of use for future generations. The attitude of these men is that they want an immediate way out of their difficulties-