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added by the United States Government, being the unpatented land in 

 the two townships in which the park is located. As the law and the 

 conditions of the donations require that the reserve be maintained as a 

 natural park for the purpose of preserving a body of redwood trees for 

 the benefit of succeeding generations, none of the area is available for 

 commercial uses. 



In summary, therefore, the total area comprised in State forest re- 

 serves in the United States, exclusive of the Boston Metropolitan Park 

 District and the Palisades Interstate Park, is approximately 3,443,000 

 acres. 



STATE-OWNED FORESTS NOT INCLUDED IN FOREST RESERVES 



In making a review of this kind, it is worth while to note that a 

 number of States own extensive areas of forest land which are not 

 included in permanent reservations, or which are not ordinarily con- 

 sidered forest reserves, or which are under the supervision of State 

 officials other than the forestry officials. Whether or not modification 

 of the status or of the administration of these areas is desirable de- 

 pends upon the particular circumstances in each case. 



Among the Eastern States, Maine holds in trust for the townships 

 which were public lands when she became a State in 1820 a total of 

 about 69,000 acres of forest land, which was reserved from sale to 

 afford revenue for educational purposes. These lands are comprised 

 mostly in i,ooo-acre lots, one in each township. The scattered location 

 of these lots suggests the possibility of meeting the demand for reserves 

 which would include areas of special value for recreation or scenery, 

 by consolidating the lots through exchange into a single large area or 

 a few large areas, but on account of the purpose for which the lots 

 were reserved it is a question whether any plan which would meet the 

 approval of the people of the State could be devised to change the 

 present status. 



Minnesota owns three million acres of forest land. A constitutional 

 amendment, ratified by popular vote in 1913, authorized the legislature 

 to place the administration of these lands under the State forester. 



Many of the public-land States, like South Dakota, own extensive 

 areas of forest lands granted by the United States for educational or 

 other purposes. These lands are generally in the form of isolated sec- 

 tions one mile square. They might well be consolidated, by exchanges, 

 into compact areas. The area of lands suitable primarily for forest 

 production owned by these States has not been accurately determined 



