PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



lations occurring in the national forest which have been 

 reported to them by the Service. 



What will the future bring? Will such lack of coopera- 

 tion on the part of a few states necessitate the federal gov- 

 ernments obtaining complete control over its forests or the 

 abandonment of the attempt to maintain forests in non- 

 cooperating states. The Service itself favors the policy of 

 watchful waiting, foreseeing gradual improvement in the 

 state departments. Cooperation, it knows from experience, 

 can be helpful, and it hopes in the future that it will be 

 successful in every state. 



Bureau of Indian Affairs: The Act of August 7, ijSg 17 

 creating the War Department placed the direction of Indian 

 Affairs under the Secretary of War, but there was no officer 

 at the seat of government solely charged with Indian affairs 

 except the Superintendent of Indian Trade (1806-22) until 

 the Bureau of Indian Affairs was created by the Secretary 

 of War, Calhoun, in i824. 18 Congress in 1832 19 gave this 

 new organization legal standing by authorizing the Presi- 

 dent to " appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the 

 Senate, a commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall, under 

 the direction of the Secretary of War, and agreeable to such 

 regulations as the President may from time to time pre- 

 scribe, have direction and management of all Indian affairs, 

 and of all matters arising out of Indian relations." This 

 act was amended in 1849 when the office of Indian Affairs 

 was transferred to the Department of the Interior, where it 

 has remained until the present day. 20 



17 1 Stat. L. 49. 



18 igth Cong., ist Sess., H. Doc. 146, p. 6. 



19 4 Stat. L. 564. 



20 For a detailed history of the Indian Affairs, see, Schmeckebier, 

 Laurence, The Office of Indian Affairs, Service Monograph, Institute 

 for Government Research (1927). 



