

1905 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 11 



public lands when such sale shall be state legislatures to provide laws and 



for the public welfare. financial aid to consolidate the rural 



RESOLVED, That we favor the schools in units sufficiently large that 



passage by Congress of an amendment forestry, agriculture, and home econ- 



to the law regarding exchange of omics may be successfully taught by 



lands included within a forest reserve precept, example, and practical work, 



so that such exchanges or lieu selec- RESOLVED, That this Congress 



tions shall be confined to lands of recommends the increase of opportu- 



equivalent value or similar condition nities for general forest education in 



as regards forest growth. schools and colleges, and for pro- 



RESOLVED, That the law which fessional training in post-graduate 



prohibits the export of forest reserve schools ; and approves the movement 



timber from the state in which it is to extend and systematize industrial 



grown should be repealed as to the education in the interest of a more 



states in which the export of such tim- general distribution of the population 



ber is in the public interest, and in no on the land, 



others^ RESOLVED, That the Congress of 



RESOLVED, That we favor the the United States be asked to appro- 

 passage of a law which will authorize priate adequate sums for the promo- 

 the sale of all the non-mineral pro- tion of forest education and forest ex- 

 ducts of the forest reserves, the pro- periment work in the agricultural col- 

 ceeds of such sales to be applied to leges and experiment stations of the 

 their management and protection, and United States ; Provided, however, 

 the construction of roads and trails such appropriations be made directly 

 within the forest reserves. to state forestry departments, bureaus, 



RESOLVED, That we heartily ap- or commissions, where existing, to be 



prove the movement for the unification used in their respective states as may 



of all the forest work of the Govern- seem best for forestry educational pur- 



ment, including the administration of poses. 



the National Forest Reserves, in the RESOLVED, That this Congress 



Department of Agriculture, and urge approves and reaffirms the resolutions 



upon Congress the necessity for imme- of various scientific and commercial 



diate action to that end. bodies during the past few years in fa- 



RESOLVED, That Congress de- vor of the establishment of national 



clare forfeited all right of way permits forest reserves in the Southern Appa- 



not exercised promptly upon issuance, lachian Mountains and in the White 



and secure to all industries engaged in Mountains of New Hampshire, and 



lawful business, and which will exer- that we earnestly urge the immediate 



cise promptly their permits, the pos- passage of bills for these purposes 



session of necessary rights of way, in whlch are now pending in both houses 



the same manner that railroads and ir- * Congress. 



rigating companies are secured in their RESOLVED, That we protest 



rights of way, and that the various against the attempt to reduce the area 



right-of-way acts on forest reserves of the Minnesota National Forest Re- 



and other public lands be so amended serve and against any step which 



as to provide for reasonable payment would enhance the difficulty of the per- 



for the use of these valuable rights. petuation of the forests upon it. 



RESOLVED, That this Congress RESOLVED, That we heartily en- 

 urges upon all schools, and especially dorse the movement for the purchase 

 the rural schools, the necessity for a of the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees 

 study of forests and tree-planting in by the National Government and earn- 

 their effect upon the general well-be- estly recommend the prompt enact-, 

 ing of the nation, and in particular up- merit of legislation to that end ; and, 

 on the wealth and happiness of com- further, we recommend the reconvey- 

 munities through the modification of ing by the State of California to the 

 local climate ; and that we urge all National Government of the Yosemite 



