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BOUNDARIES. 



Creation by President Authorized by Act of Congress. 

 The act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat, 1095), provides: 



SEC. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time to 

 time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public 

 land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part 

 covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or 

 not. as public reservations, and the President shall, by public proclama- 

 tion, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits 

 thereof. 



Thp act of June 4. 1897 (30 Stat., 11). authorizes the President to revoke 

 or suspend any proclamation or to reduce the area or change the boundary 

 lint-s of such forests. The act further provides that the reservations 



* * * shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in 

 accordance with the following provisions : 



No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve 

 and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of 

 securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a con- 

 tinuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 

 United States: but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, 

 or of the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion 

 therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricul- 

 tural purposes, than for forest purposes. 



Under date of February 7, 1910. the Secretary of the Interior and the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture submitted a joint letter to the President, which was ap- 

 proved by him, defining more fully the character of lands contemplated by the 

 two acts above referred to, as follows : 



1. Lands wholly or in part covered with brush or other undergrowth 

 which protects streamflow or checks erosion on the watershed of any 

 stream important to irrigation or to the water supply ef any city, town, 

 or community, or open lands on which trees may be grown, should be 

 retained within the National Forests, unless their permanent value under 

 cultivation is greater than their value as a protective forest. 



2. Lands wholly or in part covered w r ith timber or undergrowth, or cut- 

 over lands which are more valuable for the production of trees than for 

 agricultural crops, and lands densely stocked with young trees having a 

 prospective value greater than the value of the land for agricultural 

 purposes, should be retained within the National Forests. 



3. Lands not either wholly or in part covered with timber or under- 

 growth, which are located above timber line within the Forest boundary 

 or in small bodies scattered through the Forest making elimination im- 

 practicable, or limited areas which are necessarily included for a proper 

 administrative boundary line, should be retained within the National 

 Forests. 



4. Lands not either wholly or in part covered with timber or under- 

 growth, except as provided for in the preceding paragraphs, upon which 

 it is not expected to grow trees, should be eliminated from the National 

 Forests. 



Creation Restricted in Six States. 



In an amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill approved March 4, 

 1907 (34 Stat., 1256), it is provided that "hereafter no forest reserve shall be 



