THE NATIONAL AND MINNESOTA'S FOREST RESERVE. 



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In Washington, last winter, the friends of forestry through 

 alertness and hard work checkmated the enemy in their efforts 

 to introduce a bill to nullify the present law. Repulsed in this di- 

 rection, they then made a covert attack in the home legislature at 

 St. Paul, on the 66th day of the session, April 4th, and slid through 

 a resolution requesting our senators and representatives in Wash- 

 ington to urge the repeal of the Morris Act the coming winter. 

 The repeal of the present law would reinstate the old Nelson Act 

 and again make operative the vicious "dead and down" provision, 

 which offers a premium to the wards of this nation and to the 

 lawless to set fires on the reserve. 



I am prepared to tell you that fire has been set again and again 

 on the reserve, and some of the best white pine and Norway was 

 fired at the roots to bring the timber within the "dead and down" 

 act, some that was splendid, sound timber. The U. S. commissioner 



Pine iimucr aud loggiug railway in Cass Coutity. Reproduced by permissionof the Forest 



Service, U. S. Dept. Agri. 



