Regulations and Instructions for the Use of the National Forest Reserves

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Forest reserves
 

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Page 14 - In the management of each reserve local questions will be decided upon local grounds; the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little restriction to minor industries as may be possible ; sudden changes in industrial conditions will be avoided by gradual adjustment after due notice; and where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question will always be decided from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.
Page 18 - ... except where the injury is occasioned by the willful intention of the injured employee to bring about the injury or death of himself or of another...
Page 10 - No national forest shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the boundaries, 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 24 - Rules: 1. Matches. Be sure your match is out. Break it in two before you throw it away. 2. Tobacco. Throw pipe ashes and cigar or cigarette stumps in the dust of the road and stamp or pinch out the fire before leaving them. Don't throw them into brush, leaves, or needles. 3. Making Camp. Build a small campfire.
Page 10 - 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 10 - President, after sixty days' notice thereof, published in two papers of general circulation in the State or Territory wherein any forest reservation is situated, and near the said reservation, any public lands embraced within the limits of any forest reservation, which, after due examination by personal inspection of a competent person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be found better adapted for mining or for agricultural purposes than for forest usage, may be restored...
Page 91 - ... which are the natural increase of the livestock upon which fees are paid or for those born during the season for which the permit is allowed: Providing, That the full fee may be charged for all weaned calves and colts regardless of age.
Page 9 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Page 26 - ... (b) Building a camp fire in leaves, rotten wood, or other places where it is likely to spread, or against large or hollow logs or stumps, where it is difficult to extinguish it completely.
Page 69 - ... before it is marked or otherwise designated for cutting by a forest officer. (c) The removal from the place designated for scaling, measuring, or counting of any timber or other forest product cut under contract of sale or permit until scaled, measured, or counted, and stamped by a forest officer. (d) The stamping, except by a forest officer, of any timber belonging to the United States, either with the regulation marking tools or with any instrument having a similar design: Provided, That timber...

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