ir.istration of f create on t- e public dor.-.aln was -ado until 

 1 1, forty yctirs ago, when such a bill .aa introlucod by 

 t'.-e For*- Second Congress. This bill failed of r.aauage. 



In 1076, five "earn later, 2,000 was a -propriatAd 

 to employ a corapetont nan to investigate the timber conui- 

 tlonB in th United States, and in If-'SS an Act was approved 

 creating tha Division of Forestry in the Department of Agri- 

 culture. This Division became the Bureau of Forestry July 1, 



U, and employed nearly all the trained FOreetore in the 

 U.iited States. But the actual administration of forent 

 lands rcrainod with tho Department of tho Interior, which 

 Der-artaont had neither system nox trained mon to provide for 

 conservative forget management. 



The necessity for Federal control over certain 

 f created aroas, in order to protect tho National timber supply 



injure porrcanoncy to irritation projects in the -vest, was 

 responsible for a brier cection in the Act of T.'aroh 3, 1891, 

 eapo.Toring the President to establish forest reserves. 



jident Harrison, on March >0, 1691, first exercised thie 

 pover in the creavion of the Yellowstone Park and tirobor land 

 reserve. 



But it was found that thero were nany local 



InteroBts depending uuon *he reacursos of thy ^anlcr^il Koroste 

 (at t. K it time called KCrosc R'. aervej) and n.in: r d'tficuities 

 arc3e through the lack of arlmi.itbtrativo fa-i3it.ee. xn an 

 effort to alleviate this condiciur.. th& National Acader-y of 

 Sciences was requested to recoiTiend a National forest policy 

 h resulted in the Act of Jurio 4, 1397, uroer which, with 

 various subsequent amend ncrtr.c, the National FOi-oote are now 

 adminie tercel. Tlie pf.rcio- 1 . amorxLT.ent wa^ the Act of 



1, 1505^ nv^.ch cri-nafOi-red to tho bcorotury of 



entire jui-isaicticn over the i^ationa.1 Forests 

 except in the matters rf aui'veying and pasjp.ga of title. 



Our forest history in this country, then, dates back 

 a little over one fr.indred years, but took no dof ^ri-.o fon 

 until forty years a^o, and the era of t.ctaa.1 a. .it, 

 aa fe.r as our public foreii.8 are conocrr^'i, go; : cacl. cnly 

 fifteen yoara. and really or.ly &r\ ei ; ^rr-s, c^r sir.sa the com- 

 plete tranofer of their ae~.?u .ii - ^011 to the ^ej-ar'^^r.t of 

 Agricx-lture in 1905. *'e ij^e, inueei, very :*c-.-g in f*ctaal 

 forestry, but in this brief r* r iu* acic.t: iia.s be -n accor-pllohed. 



Our ?Iatio:i: Forestu, counc.-lr.j those in Porta R'.ca 

 and. Alaait, no- r.wi^r , tb & tctal ac; ' - Uncle 

 v s. 1 ?/.>, tn<r are 



: .""I I on acres, 



- r.ting 



ii'.onto;'. ''a.r.d : trio 1 .ries. 



