UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOREST SERVICE 



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



San Francisco Of lice- ) 



LAN! ELIUIHATED FROLi EilE SSI 



SEQUOIA KAtlOiTAL FOR:; 32 



On June 9 the President signed a Proclamation 

 eliminating approximately 157,320 acres nf land from the 

 Sequoia National Forest, California. 



Tliis e liiuination was recommended by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture after careful examination of the lands in ques- 

 tion had been made by the Forest Service. The action is 

 similar to that taken recently on the adjoining Sierra National 

 Forest, where a considerable area was eliminated, and it fol- 

 lows out the general policy of the Forest Service to eliminate 

 as rapidly as possible from all National Forests such lands 

 as are found to be chiefly valuable for agricultural purposes. 



A large portion of the lands now eliminated from 

 the Sequoia Forest h-.^s rlready been acquired by private par- 

 ties, either before their inclusion in the National Forest or 

 through the Forest Homestead Act. The alienated are-, of 

 course, includes most of the- best agricultural lane. The areae 

 vhich still remain Government land were found to be generally 

 more- valuable for agriculture and grazing than for iorest pur- 

 poses end their elimination was accordingly recommended. 



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