ties instoad of harboring ill feeling 

 for years, 



DUBOIS introduced MR. II^STEIVELDT , of California Pish and 



Game Commission, who thanlreo. the members of the Service for 

 their aid and cooperation in enforcing the laws; and said 

 that Mr. Hunt or, who has charge of the game conservation for 

 the Commission, would tallr to them on that subject, 



MR HUUTSH'S paper dealt with the game annals and "birds of 

 California, their habitat, their number and present and 

 proposed legislation concerning their protection. 

 THURSDAY A? 



B arr et t Ghai rman 



1:30 Progress in Evolving a Rational and Consistent 

 Settlement Policy - Land Classification. 



B4RF3M : 



TThen the Act of June 11,1906, was put into effect, 

 few ZPorest Officers really understood its future import, and 

 our early policy v/as necessarily crude. It is only recent- 

 ly that we have come to realize the importance of the set- 

 tlement wor&. First e::aminations were made largely by In- 

 spectors or specially dosignatocL men, and an attempt was 

 made to mate "blanket examinations by individual examiners. 

 Later ell examinations wero made by specially selected for- 

 est Officers on each Sorest. In 1908 the policy of issuing 

 free demonstration permits on lands of questionable agri- 



