(Prom the Forest Service, U. S, Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 



LAND HI IIHATrD FROLI P-178 



STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOH7JST 



On April 13 the President signed an Executive 

 Order eliminating 52,088 acres of land from the Stanislaus 

 Notional Forest, California. This action is the result 

 of a recommendation made by the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 based on reports and recommendations submitted by the Forest 

 Service. Examination of the land involved showed it to con- 

 sist mainly of river slopes and hills on the north side of 

 the Merced River. The cover is mainly chaparral, although 

 there is more or less scattering timber in places. The total 

 amount of such timber was estimated to be not over one million 

 board feet. There are very few settlers upon the land elim- 

 inated. The climate and soil are such as to render some areas 

 of future value for agriculture, but this value is largely 

 dependent upon the development of water for irrigption pur- 

 poses, which is now lacking. The examination thus demon- 

 strated that the land is not chiefly valupble for national 

 forest purposes and the recommendation for its restoration to 

 the public domain followed as a matter of course* 



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