MINNESOTA NATIONAL 



RESERVE 



FOREST 



BY 

 Rev. J. T. BRABNER SMITH 



Frazee. Minn. 



D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT acted 

 * wisely in securing the services of 

 a disinterested expert in practical lum- 

 bering: to visit the Minnesota National 

 Forest Reserve, at Cass Lake, and to 

 report the result o fhis investigations 

 to him at Washington. This report 

 has been made public, and the friends 



ends of a few persons, or even to sat- 

 isfy the real want of a small minority. 

 For two years I lived at Cass Lake 

 village, adjacent to this reserve, and 

 was there when the first selection of 

 land for this reserve was made. Most 

 of the land and the lakes included 

 therein the writer has personally seen. 



Lake Thirteen in the "Ten Sections" Minnesota National Forest Reserve 



and lovers of the natural beauties of 

 the forest are encouraged. 



The knowledge that the Federal 

 Forest Reserves are to be used for the 

 national good will steadily gain them 

 friends, and the idea is constantly 

 growing that such marvellous beauty 

 as exists in the Minnesota Reserve 

 should not be destroyed for the selfish 



Eugene S. Bruce, now Expert Lum- 

 berman of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 was in charge of the selection of lands 

 to constitute this reserve, and a more 

 able and conscientious man I have 

 never met. He was for years engaged 

 in lumbering work in the state of New 

 York. He is a competent lumberman, 

 and no better man could have been in 



