SCENE IN THE NEW CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST 



Seed'Collecting Camp in the Strawberry Valley 



sources of the nation, and I particularly 

 regretted his inability to attend the 

 meeting of governors in May, because 

 the meeting was in part the fruit of the 

 seed he had sown years before. 



"The name of Grover Cleveland will 

 always be prominently identified with 

 the movement to protect the forests of 

 the United States, and it seems to me 

 eminently fitting that one of the forests 

 which he created should bear his name 

 throughout all time. 



"Sincerely yours. 



"Theodore Roosevelt." 



The San Jacinto National Forest, to- 

 gether with twelve others, was created 

 by President Cleveland on February 

 22, 1897. The recommendation of 

 Hon. David R. Francis, Secretary of 

 the Interior under President Cleveland, 

 reads as follows : 



*T respectfully suggest that the 165th 

 anniversary (February 22, 1897), of 

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the birth of the Father of Our Country 

 could be no more appropriately com- 

 memorated than by the promulgation 

 by yourself of proclamations establish- 

 ing these grand forest reservations." 



Eleven of these "reserves," as they 

 then were called, were opposed in the 

 West, and the proclamation creating 

 them was suspended. But investigation 

 showed their necessity and the procla- 

 mation was in due time confirmed. 



When created the San Jacinto Na- 

 tional Forest embraced 737 280 acres. 

 It has, however, been enlarged since 

 and now contains 1,904,826 acres. It 

 is located in Orange. San Diego, and 

 Riverside Counties. The Supervisor in 

 charge is H. A. E. Marshall, whose 

 headquarters are at San Diego. 



The Forest policy of the Government 

 was only just forming ten years ago. 

 In 1896, the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences, at the request of the Govern- 

 ment, appointed a National Forest Com- 



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