the timber and the water resources of the National Forests, but also ror lanus 

 for other uses, principally agriculture, becomes more intensive and lands of all 

 classes acquire correspondingly higher values, it will become necessary to draw 

 the lines more and more closely between those lands chiefly valuable for forest 

 purposes and those lands chiefly valuable forother purposes, which it is the 

 intent of Congress should not be withheld from private settlement and develop- 

 ment. In the future, therefore, boundary questions concerning additions to and 

 eliminations from National Forests, while having to do with much smaller areas 

 than in the past, will be more difficult to determine and will involve much 

 closer and more careful investigation of all the factors involved, many of 

 which will be of a highly technical nature. The classification of lands within 

 the National Forests in order to determine the comparative values and the 

 highest use to which they may be put should consequently become increasingly 

 more intensive, in order that the recommendations submitted may be well 

 founded. 



Inter-Forest Boundaries. 



Boundaries between adjoining Forests will generally be upon topographic lines, 

 although legal subdivisions may be followed. They will be determined after a 



