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nesota, Wisconsin and other states and territories in the union from 

 which the timber has been removed, which have reverted back to the 

 government, should be set aside for forestry purposes that they may 

 again be covered with forest growth to supply coming generations; there- 

 fore, 



Resolved, That the Iowa Academy of Sciences hereby petitions con- 

 gress, first, to segregate for park and forestry purposes, the said tract of 

 land at the headwaters of the Mississippi and such other lands as con- 

 gress may have control over in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin 

 and other states, especially the Rocky mountain and Sierra regions, to 

 the end that not only the timber supply of such states may be partially 

 saved, but for holding the moisture in said regions, and also for the 

 preservation of our wild game; second, we also favor the purchase of 

 the land for a proposed Southern Appalachain National Park. 



Resolved, Third, That the government from the market public lands 

 covered with timber, that the mature timber on the same be sold under 

 the supervision of a technically trained forester; fourth, That we urge 

 upon our delegates in congress the feasibility of concentrating the for- 

 estry work; and urge that the government establish a rational system 

 of forestry, especially with reference to our forest reserves; and fifth, 

 That the supervision of these forest reserves be placed in charge of 

 trained foresters, all under one responsible head, preferably the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, to the end that a more rational system 

 of forestry may be introduced in this country. 



L. H. Pammel, 

 T. H. Macbride, 

 H. A. Mueller, 



Committee. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST RESERVES. 

 Resolutions of the Academy of Sciences. 



The Iowa Academy of Sciences approves of President Roosevelt's 

 message on forestry and irrigation, two great internal questions and 

 heartily concurs in the statement that, "The fundamental idea of forestry 

 is the perpetuation of forestry by use. Forest protection is not an end 

 of itself; it is a means to increase and sustain the resources of our coun- 

 try and the industries which depend upon them. The preservation of 

 our forest is an imperative business necessity. We have come to see 

 clearly that whatever destroys the forest except to make way for agri- 

 culture threatens our well being." The usefulness of forest reserve has 

 been demonstrated and to have them wisely and justly administered is 

 therefore an imperative necessity. We heartily concur in the recom- 

 mendations made by Secretary Hitchcock in his annual report that the 

 forest reserves should be under the direction of trained foresters and that 

 forestry, dealing as it does with a source produced by the soil, is an agri- 

 cultural subject and should ultimately come under the head of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture if found practicable, because of the trained foresters 



