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for the Forest Service, and an increase in salary for some of the 

 officers of the Bureau, including the chief forester. They also secured 

 a provision permitting the export of forest reserve timber beyond the 

 boundaries of the state wherein it had been cut. This provision was 

 necessary before the management of the forest reserves could be put 

 on any business basis. The forest reserves, by the way, were hence- 

 forth to be known as "national forests." 



The anti-forest reserve party secured concessions of considerably 

 greater importance. In the first place, Fulton's amendment meant 

 that, in the six states of the Northwest which contained the vast bulk 

 of western timber, there could be little further extension of the system 

 of forest reserves, for it was not likely that Congress would ever 

 establish many reserves. It meant the repeal of the act of 1891, the 

 most important act in the history of the forestry policy, as far as it 

 provided for forest reserves in most of the timber lands of the West ; 

 although President Roosevelt took most of the sting out of this 

 provision by proclaiming twenty-one new reserves in the six northwest 

 states, on March 2, before he signed the bill.^^ 



A further concession was made to the anti-conservationists, in the 

 abolition of the forest reserve special fund, by which, since 1905, 

 receipts from the sales of timber and grazing privileges had been 

 available for the work of the Forest Service. For the fiscal year 1905- 

 1906, the Forest Service had received $514,086 for grazing permits 

 and $242,668 for timber sold— a total of over $750,000 ;'' while in 

 1906-1907, the receipts were more than double that amount — over 

 $1,530,000.^^ Thus the abolition of this special fund more than bal- 

 anced the $1,000,000 increase in the appropriation. 



A third concession to Fulton's party provided that 10 per cent of 

 the receipts of each forest reserve should be given to the state for 

 schools and roads in the counties in which the reserve was situated. 

 As a final slap at the Forest Service, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 was required to submit to Congress each year a classified and detailed 



91 Stat. 34, Part 3. It was stated in Congress years afterward that Roosevelt 

 signed the proclamation creating these reserves and permitted them to be en- 

 larged afterward. In 1914, there was a great deal of criticism of the manner in 

 which the proclamation had been issued. {Cong. Bee, Mar. 10, 1914, 4633.) 



02 Report, Dept. of Agr., 1906, 278, 281. 



^^ Report, Sec. of Agr. (abridged edition), 1909, 65. 



