Forestry in the United States 



ing is suspended, game is protected, and troops arc stationed 

 along its borders to insure the carrying out of the laws. In 

 reservations no such surveillance is maintained; the laws permit 

 lumbering, hunting and grazing, as the tracts, once open to 

 settlers, are sprinkled over with privately owned areas. It is 

 the President's right to withdraw public lands from sale and 

 settlement at his discretion. This he does to protect the head- 

 waters of streams and to save valuable timber lands and wilt! 

 scenery. Much land now merely reserved by presidential procla- 

 mation will eventually be made by acts of Congress into national 

 parks. 



The Yellowstone, over 2,000,000 acres in the northwest 

 corner of Wyoming, is our greatest national park. California 

 has three: the Yosemite, over 160,000 acres of the most 

 beautiful and rugged scenery in the world; Sequoia and 

 General Grant parks, both preserving some fine groves of the 

 Big Trees. All three parks lie in the great Sierra reservation of 

 4,000,000 acres, which, with a southern chain of reservations, 

 occupy one-tenth of the area of the state. Arizona has four large 

 reserves, one of which includes the famous Grand Canon of the 

 Colorado. Some of the best of the Pacific coast forests are in 

 the Mount Ranier, Olympic and Washington reservations in 

 Washington, and the Cascade Reservation in Oregon. The tract 

 of over 200,000 acres, including Mount Tacoma, is now a national 

 park. 



Great areas of forest reserves check the map of the Rocky 

 Mountain states, extending east to the Dakotas and Oklahoma, 

 and including parks of comparatively small size. State forest 

 reservations are not so common. New York has set a good 

 example by providing in 1885 a pleasure ground of 1,000,000 

 acres for the people in the wilds of the Adirondacks. It is 

 also a health resort, especially for consumptives. Since 1895, 

 Pennsylvania has acquired 300,000 acres on which practical 

 forestry is to be begun. Many states, spurred to action by 

 the falling off of the timber supply, have established forestry 

 experiment stations. California has two such stations. State 

 universities and agricultural colleges now offer courses in forestry, 

 and have forest laboratories. The state of Michigan set aside a 

 57,000 acre tract for this purpose when its course in forestry was 

 established. IZvcn the prairie states have followed suit. Land 



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