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
Popular passages
Page 372 - Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Page 377 - 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 377 - 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 the citizens of the United States...
Page 315 - Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon such forest reservations 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 384 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.
Page 70 - Because rainfall is most abundant where forests grow, many believe that forests exert an important influence on the amount of precipitation. A more reasonable inference, however, is that rainfall is the great factor in controlling the distribution and density of forests.
Page 311 - And provided further, That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this Act [this section] 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 400 - It has already passed the House of Representatives and is now pending in the Senate.
Page 4 - ... that henceforth the movement for the conservative use of the forest is to come mainly from within, not from without; from the men who are actively interested in the use of the forest in one way or another, even more than from those whose interest is philanthropic and general. The difference means to a large extent the difference between mere agitation and actual execution, between the hope of accomplishment and the thing done.
Page 315 - 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.