the forest Service, U, S. Department of A/;r icul turp . ) 



CONTROL 

 07 FORESTS 



^L^A^D FOR .-.FT^R 

 0? NOTStoBSR 19, 1913 



Washington, Kov . 19, Henry 3. Graven, U. S. 

 Forester, spoke before the National Conservation Congress 

 in peso ion today, dwelling particularly on the present 

 policies of the government in respect to the activities 

 of the forest service. Referring to th f 3 attitude of 

 the present administration, as to the so-called states' 

 rights policy, which has advocated state instead of fed- 

 . ai control of forests, Ilr, Graves says there is no 

 thought of any change in the established sysjtem of fed- 

 e r a 3_ own e r s h i p and control. 



The Forester spoke in part as follows: 

 "The nation hns p-n important stake in forestry. 

 Here as in a!3. other countries, the real development of 

 forestry beA^^n when the government took up its practice. 

 Even today sons persons would leave the forests entirely 

 to private owners, others insist that the public phases 

 of forestry are. altogether a state function and federal 

 Activities in this field uncalled for. Those who hold 

 this view are ucuaj.] y either lukewarm concerning the 

 need for forest conservation or opposed to restricting 

 private activities e Yet unrestricted private ejcploi- 

 ^-itjon of forosts is impossible if v/e are to contii LG : .'^ 



that f Lo r.r\\ i or. no^'is. 



