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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



feet of free timber has been furnished for this work. 

 This timber which the Chugach Forest has contributed 

 free of charge to the Alaska Railroad has consisted not 

 only of sawtimber to be cut at several sawmills operated 

 either by the Commission or by private concerns for the 

 Commission, but of such material as piling, bridge tim- 

 bers, railroad 

 ties, and tele- 

 phone poles, 

 covering a wide 

 variety of uses, 

 for docks, 

 snowsheds, sec- 

 tion houses, 

 stations, store- 

 houses, quar- 

 ters for offices 

 and employees, 

 etc. 



The latest 

 free permit is- 

 sued by the 

 Forest Service 

 was made in 

 S ep t em ber, 

 1920, and covered 2,500,000 board feet of sawtimber' 

 120,000 railroad ties, and 170 linear feet of piling. These 

 free-use permits are issued in accordance with a Con- 

 gressional enactment permitting the Forest Service to 



SHIP CREEK RANGER STATION, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, ON THE CHUGACH NATIONAL FOREST 



grant free National Forest material to the Alaska Engi- 

 neering Commission for Government works. This free 

 use timber is cut from a strip five miles wide on either 

 side of the right-of-way of the Government railroad. 

 The timber is designated for cutting by forest officers, 

 seed trees being left to reseed the cut-over area. These 



permits to the 

 C o m m i s sion 

 run for one 

 year and con- 

 tain the usual 

 conditions re- 

 garding protec- 

 tion from fire, 

 prevention of 

 waste, and 

 avoidance o f 

 u n n e c e ssary 

 damage to trees 

 left standing. 



The National 

 Forests of 

 Alaska have 

 thus for the 

 past fifteen 



years been helping in the local development of Alaska by 

 furnishing a supply of lumber for its industries and for 

 Government use in building a railroad which is going to 

 mean greater things for that country. 



DEDICATION OF THE SCOUT RESERVATION 



Und 20 ^^, ^'^"'^"^ 011 '" 1 ^^" 6 dediCated thB W dr0W WMs n Boy Sc0ut Reservation, a forty-one acre tract at Burnt Mill, Mary- 

 no e -Lull a, V 1, ^ ' ^ Broo ? * thC 2 ' 5 B y Sc0Jts of the District - Th"* a " streams, wooded hills and a fine "winl'n. 



