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will result in the failure of our prescribed, boundaries to effect the 

 desired exclusion, but if they should do so in any case prompt correc- 

 tion Avill be made. 



Since the supposed inclusion of these towns constitutes nearly all 

 your stated grounds of objection, as I understand them, I presume 

 your protests will be withdrawn or greatly modified upon this expla- 

 nation. Perhaps we can agree in certain reserves as a result. 

 Very truly, yours, 



GirroRD PiNCHOT, Forester. 



Hon. W. B. Heyburn, ^VaUace.^ Idaho. 



Senator Dubois to the President. 



Washington, D. C., May 6, 1905. 

 The President: 



I propose to discuss the question of the establishment . of forest 

 reserves by the Rational Government, directing my attention espe- 

 x^ialty to the proposed new reserves in Idaho. 



I am a strong advocate of the policy of forest reserves, and specific- 

 ally indorse the National Administration in its proposed reserves 

 in our State. I do this after very careful consideration of all the 

 interests involved. In taking this position I differ radically with 

 m}^ colleague. Senator Heyburn, Avho objects specifically to the estab- 

 lishment of each one of the proposed forest reserves in Idaho. I 

 understand from the Bonners Ferry Herald and other publications in 

 Idaho that Congressman French and Governor Gooding indorse the 

 position taken by Senator Heyburn. Assuming this to be true, I 

 differ radically with Congressman French and Governor Gooding 

 also. 



^Vhen forest reserves were first created and that policy first entered 

 upon, and especially during the administration of President Cleve- 

 land, the western Representatives in Congress bitterly assailed the 

 creation of these reserves. I joined with my colleagues from the 

 Rocky Mountain region in this opposition, and we continued the 

 fight almost unitedly and with great earnestness for a number of 

 years. We disclaimed always any objection to the policy, but con- 

 tended against the methods which were used in creating, maintaining, 

 and controlling these reserves. During those years reserves were 

 created without sufficient investigation, and there were not sufficient 

 safeguards to protect stock raisers, miners, lumbermen, agriculturists, 

 and people of our section generally. The fight of the Avestern men 

 Avas constant and united. Our demands were set forth in numerous 

 sj)eeches and finally Avere acceded to. The policy Avhich controls the 

 creation of forest reserA^es to-day and their administration is sub- 

 stantially the policy Avhich the RepresentatiA^es of the Western States 

 in Congress have contended for, and is substantially Avhat the AVest, 

 through its RepresentatiA^es, demanded. 



The passage of the national irrigation act and the construction of 

 large irrigation Avorks by the Government all oA^er our western coun- 

 try, AAdiich will reclaim millions of acres of desert land, has made the 

 further extension of forest reserves already existing and the creation 



