SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN -WHITE 

 MOUNTAIN FOREST BILL 



ETOLLOWIXG the special report of than for other purposes and 



the Secretary of Agriculture on uated on the watersheds of navi- 



Southern Appalachian and White gable streams in the Southern Appa- 



.\ fountain \\"atersheds, which went to lachian Mountains within the St 



Congress December II, the bill for the Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 



])urchase of National Forests in the North Carolina, South Carolina, 



two regions was introduced in the Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and 



House f Representatives on Decem- Tennessee, and in the White Moun- 



ber H). Identical bills were introduc- tains within the States of Xew Hamp- 



.! by Representatives Lever, of South shire and Maine. Such acquisition 



Carolina, and Currier, of New Hamp- may in any case be conditioned upon 



shire. Doth were referred to the Com- the exception and reservation to the 



mittee on Agriculture, of which Rep- owner from whom title passes to the 



iv^entative Chas. F. Scott, of Kansas, United States of the minerals and of 



is Chairman. the merchantable timber, or either or 



An effort is being made to secure a any part of them, within or upon such 



public hearing on these bills on De- lands at the date of the conveyance, 



crmber 3Oth. the day following the but in every such case such exception 



meeting of the American Forestry As- and reservation and the time within 



sociation. The bill is modified consid- which such timber shall be removed 



Drably from the form in which it and the rules and regulations under 



passed the Senate in the last Congress, which the cutting and removal of such 



In its present form it is simpler and timber, and the mining and removal 



much better. Before its introduction o f such minerals shall be done, shall 



it was carefully criticized by represent- be expressed in the written instrument 



atives of the Society for the Protection o f conveyance, and thereafter the 



of New Hampshire Forests, the Mass- mining, cutting and removal of the 



achusetts Forestry Association, and minerals and timber so excepted and 



the American Civic Association, as well reserved shall be done only under and 



as by members of the American For- in obedience to the rules and regula- 



estry Association and the Forest Ser- t j ons so expressed, 



vice, and we understand that its pres- , 



ent form is approved bv all of these or- . S * c - , T hat 



^anizations. The text of the bill fol- " culture shall advertise in the several 



j nws . States named in section one for lands 



to be acquired under the provisions 



A BILL hereof; and as between lands of equal 



value, the lowest bids shall be accept- 



For acquiring National Forests in the ed : Pro: hied. That the Secretary of 



Southern Appalachian Mountains Agriculture shall have the right to re- 



and White Mountains. ject any or all bids. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and Sec. 3. That no deed or other in- 



House of Representatives of the strument of conveyance >hall be ac- 



United States of America in Congress cepted or approved by the tary 



assembled. That the Secretary of Ag- of Agriculture under this act until the 



riculture is hereby authorized and di- legislature of the State in which the 



rected. in his discretion, to acquire for land n ' es shall have consented to tlv 



National Forest purposes by purchase quisition of such land by the United 



or gift lands more valuable for States for National Fore-t purp. 



the regulation of stream flow r. 4. That the Secretary of Agri- 



