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Department of the Interior. The Bureau is now the 

 recognized source of information upon the suitabiHty 

 of lands for forest reserves or of changes in the boun- 

 daries of existing reserves, for working plans for the 

 management of the reserves, and for special reports 

 upon grazing and other matters involved in their 

 administration. In no case has the Bureau mixed in 

 the details of reserve management. It has dealt exclu- 

 sively with matters of policy. 



In its work under the Morris bill the Bureau has 

 proved that conservative lumbering pays in the pine 

 region of northern Minnesota. It was charged with 

 drawing up the regulations for conservative lumbering 

 and with their enforcement upon lands which, after 

 they have been lumbered, will constitute the Minnesota 

 National Forest Reserve. The result has proved that 

 the Bureau of Forestry can institute and conduct 

 successfully large administrative duties in forest man- 

 agement. 



In the fourth branch of its work, the publication of 

 the results of its investigations for the benefit of all, 

 the Bureau has distributed well on toward 2,000,000 

 copies of its bulletins, circulars, and reports. I do not 

 wish to inflict too much statistical information regard- 

 ing publications upon you. But the distribution of 

 publications is in large measure a test of the Bureau's 

 usefulness, and the demand for them a proof of the 

 appreciation of its work. And I want to give you 

 enough facts to show, both that the publications are 

 going out and that they are being read and used. 

 Although the regular editions have been largely 

 increased in order to meet the demand, no less than 

 seventy-seven reprints have been required to satisfy it. 

 A notable example of the scope of this demand is The 

 Primer of Forestry, of which the first edition of 35,000 



