INTRODUCTION 



A storm of protest was raised in Northern Wis- 

 consin by the statement in the report of the State 

 Forester for the years 1911 and 1912 that the present 

 state forest holdings of 400,000 acres should be in- 

 creased so that the reserve would consist of between 

 one million and one million and a half acres in order 

 to block up and consolidate the present State lands. 

 The same report claimed that the State should pur- 

 chase at least 800,000 acres more in the permanent 

 forest reserve area and it recommended that the 

 Legislature pass a bill defining the boundaries of the 

 reserve as follows: Commencing at the southwest 

 corner of T. 38, R. 3 E., Price county, thence east 

 along the south line of T. 38 to the eastern boundary 

 line of Forest county, or the southeast corner of T. 

 38, R. 14 E.; thence north along the east line of R. 

 14 E., to the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary line, or 

 the Menominee river; thence west along the W T iscon- 

 sin-Michigan boundary line to the northeast corner 

 of section 13 in T. 44, R. 4 E.; thence south on the 

 east line of R. 4 E. to the' northeast corner of T. 43, 

 R. 4 E.; thence west to the northwest corner of T. 

 43, R. 4 E.; thence south to the northwest corner of 

 T. 41, R. 4 E.; thence west to the northwest corner 

 T. 41, R. 2 E. ; thence south to the southwest corner 

 of T. 41, R. 2 E.; thence east to the northwest cor- 

 ner of T. 41, R. 2 E.; thence east to the northwest 

 corner of T. 41, R. 3 E.; thence south to the south- 

 west corner of T. 38, R. 3 E., or the point of begin- 

 ning, excepting from the same the following: 



1. Lands within the limits of any village or city. 



2. The following townships or portions of town- 



ships: 



(a) T. 39 R. 6, E. 



(b) The south half of T. 40, R. 6 E. 



(c) The east two-thirds of T. 38, R. 9 E. 



(d) The south two-thirds of T. 38, R. 



10 E. 



(e) T. 38, R. 11 E. 

 (/) T. 40, R. 10 E. 



