Forestry: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session [on H. R. 15327 |
Common terms and phrases
acres amount appropriation Association ASWELL authority AYRES BABBITT believe benefit CAMPBELL Capper bill cent CHAIRMAN CLARKE Coeur d'Alene committee Congress cooperation cost course crop cut-over lands DANAHER deal estimate expense EYCK Federal Government feet fire protection forest fires forest lands forest policy forest products forest reserves Forest Service forestry GASKILL gentlemen GERNERD give going GREELEY growing timber growth HALL hardwood Idaho idea individual industry interest JACOWAY JONES KELLOGG KINCHELOE KIRBY legislation legislature LONG lumber lumbermen matter MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan ment national forests navigable streams necessary ownership Pennsylvania PINCHOT pine planting practical present private owners problem proposition pulp purchase purpose question reason reforestation regrowth regulations requirements Secretary of Agriculture SHERMAN SISSON Snell bill statement stumpage survey taxes TAYLOR TEN EYCK thing timberlands TINCHER tion to-day TOUMEY United watersheds Wisconsin wood
Popular passages
Page 5 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 6 - ... shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct...
Page 6 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams and to appoint a Commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 30 - In the cooperation extended to the several States due consideration shall be given to the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, but such cooperation may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be extended to any timbered or forest producing lands or watersheds from which water is secured for domestic use or irrigation within the cooperating states.
Page 59 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and each fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the fiscal year ending June...
Page 222 - There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to the best implement with which to cut snow blocks.
Page 27 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in cooperation with appropriate officials of the various States or, in his discretion, with other suitable agencies, to assist the owners of farms in establishing, improving, and renewing wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in growing and renewing useful timber crops: Provided.
Page 10 - In no case other than for preliminary investigations shall the amount expended by the federal government in any state during any fiscal year, under this section, exceed the amount expended by the state for the same purpose during the same fiscal year, including the expenditures of forest owners or operators which are required by state law...
Page 88 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not, we are very much obliged to you, Mr.
Page 9 - ... schoolhouse and speak for them, the chamber of commerce chairman — a very wealthy man, so I am informed — refused to let me speak although the Indians wanted me to explain why they had changed their rates in Palm Canyon. That was collusion. I want to place in the record this statement in regard to that. The CHAIRMAN. What is the pleasure of the committee with reference to the matter mentioned by the witness? ' [After a pause.] Just a minute. You have asked the committee to accept this statement...