1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



'-17 



the size and lumber production of various 

 wooded regions in the United States. The 

 value of preserving certain types of pro- 

 tective forests on watersheds, for the con- 

 servation of water important to adjacent 

 areas of agricultural lands is also illus- 

 trated. 



A special feature of the display is the 

 illustration of individual trees of the mam- 

 moth Sequoia, the giant Red Firs and 

 White Firs and Sugar Pines of the Cali- 

 fornia forests. Typical agricultural and 

 forest lands in the East and West are il- 



"A recent visit to two of the Chippewa 

 Indian reservations satisfies me that 11 

 are strong grounds for the common im- 

 pression that the Indians are being 

 wronged by the cutting of pine timber 

 under the "dead and down" timber law 

 and that the way this law is administered 

 offers a premium for causing forest fires. 

 There are 7,000 Chippewa Indian-, in a 

 dozen different bands, scattered for 

 miles from east to west in northern .Min- 

 nesota with many settlers in their vicinity, 

 and it is very important that they have no 



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lustrated on a large scale showing the 

 principal protective agencies of natural 

 adjacent mountain forests and planted 

 shelter-belts of forest trees. The regions 

 and subjects from which these illustra- 

 tions were taken are representative of the 

 principal agricultural and forest sections 

 of the United States. 



In addition to transparencies, maps 

 show the distribution of the principal 

 lines of work carried on by the Division 

 of Forestry. Charts show the histoiy, 

 size and location of the United States 

 Government reserves, National parks, and 

 also State forest reserves, parks, and pre- 

 serves. 



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Improper 

 Cutting of 

 Indian Pine 

 Timber. 



Gen. G. C. Andrews, 

 Chief Forest Fire War- 

 den of Minnesota, has 

 given to the press the fol- 

 lowing statement relative 



to cutting "dead and down" pine on the 



Chippewa Indian reservations : 



good cause of dissatisfaction. Their pine 

 forests are worth $S, 000, 000. Under the 

 existing treaty this pine on the ceded res- 

 ervations must be sold in forty-acre tracts, 

 but from various causes such sale is held 

 in abeyance. Ordinarily, once in six or 

 eight years, from unusual blow-downs of 

 pine or from fire, there would be occa- 

 sion for cutting some million feet of pine 

 under the "dead and down" law. Bui 

 through eagerness of people to get the 

 pine the Interior Department, which has 

 good intentions towards the Indians, has 

 been so misinformed as to permit exten- 

 sive lumbering operations under the law 

 for successive years. 



. "I went and looked at the pine logs, 

 probably 20,000,000 feet, partly in boom 

 and partly in piles at Wolf bake and Pike 

 Bay on the reservation, which includes 

 Cass Lake, and at Elbow bake in the 

 northeast part of White Earth reservation. 

 and think that 70 per cent, of all [could 

 see were sound and merchantable. There 



