to that department, and has been conducted in the 

 best interest of the states in which such forest re- 

 serves are located; and, 



"WHEREAS, The states are not prepared to take 

 without the co-operation of the federal government, 

 as good care of such enormously valuable property 

 as this property is now receiving from the United 

 States Forest Service; and, 



"WHEREAS, The use of the national forests in 

 producing timber and regulating the flow of streams 

 in controlling grazing and in other respects are in- 

 terstate and far reaching; now, therefore, 



"BE IT RESOLVED, That the Minnesota House of 

 Representatives, the Senate concurring, protests 

 against the proposed action on the part of Congress, 

 the effect of which would be to transfer control of 

 the national forest reserves from the federal govern- 

 ment to the individual states. This Legislature fur- 

 ther deplores the fact that such legislation has ever 

 been proposed at this session of Congress since the 

 people of the United States have repeatedly signified 

 their approval of the splendid system under which 

 . the national forest reserves are now administered. 

 This Legislature urges that the Minnesota delegation 

 in Congress exercises its strongest efforts to defeat 

 this proposed legislation. 



"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of 

 these resolutions be forwarded by the chief clerk of 

 the House to each of our United States Senators 

 and to each of the members in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives from this state." 



Similar resolutions, patterned along the same line as the 

 resolution recently adopted by the state forestry board, have 

 been drawn by California, Maine, Massachusetts, the North 

 Carolina Forestry Association, the Conservation Commission 

 of New York and the Southern Commercial Congress. 



