Proceedings of the American Forest Congress Held at Washington, D. C., January 2 to 6, 1905 |
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acres Agriculture American Forestry Association amount annual basin Black Hills Bureau of Forestry cent Congress conservative cooperage coöperation cost creosote denuded Department destruction dollars drainage basin estry fact feet forest cover forest lands forest products forest reserves future Geological Survey Gifford Pinchot Government grazing growth hemlock importance increase industry interests irrigation Land Office lignite live stock loblolly pine logging longleaf pine lumber lumbermen manufacturers ment methods miles mills miner mining mountain necessity needs Northern Pacific Railway obtained operation owners Pinchot pine plant practical present President problem profit protection public lands purposes Queen Creek question railroad range reforestation regions regulations River run-off Secretary secure sheep soil spruce square miles stockmen Stone Act streams stumpage thousand timber Timber and Stone timber lands tion to-day tracts trees United utilization Washington waste water supply West Western wood
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Page 381 - to improve and protect the forest to secure favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to make
Page 319 - And any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been or which may be shown to be such, and subject to entry under the existing mining laws of the United States and the rules and regulations applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained.
Page 315 - And provided further that any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this Act may be revoked by him or his successor in his discretion, and shall not be held to confer any right or easement or interest in, to, or over any public land, reservation or park.
Page 319 - Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon such forest reservation for all proper and lawful purposes, including that of prospecting, locating, and developing the mineral resources thereof: Provided, That such persons comply with the rules and regulations covering such forest reservations.
Page 177 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
Page 381 - which provides: 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
Page 46 - historical period' they are known to have been covered with luxuriant woods, verdant pastures and fertile meadows, they are now too far deteriorated to be reclaimable by man; nor can they become again fitted for human use except through great geological changes, or other mysterious influences or agencies of which we have no present knowledge,
Page 319 - make such rules and regulations and establish service as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction.
Page 381 - was authorized to make provision for the protection against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public forests and forest reservations and to make such rules and regulations and establish such service as would insure the objects of such
Page 404 - has passed the House of Representatives and is now pending in the Senate of the United States; and your judgment and influence will go far, no doubt, to secure its passage through that wise and great though somewhat