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INDEX 



Population, Alaska's need, 53, 54 

 Porto Rico, area of, 19, 52; National 



Forests in, 130, 332 



Potash, table of withdrawals and classi- 

 fications, 197 



Powell, John Wesley, 156, 330, 348 

 Power, sources of, 184; distribution of 

 sources in U. S., 185; a future asset, 

 1 88; annual growth of development, 

 189, 190; Federal Act, 100 ff.; possi- 

 bilities of future achievement, 193 ff.; 

 regional distribution of, 194; giant, 



194, iQS 



Pre-emption Act, 26, 99 



Pritchard, Senator, 126 



Public Domain, 3, 43; size of, 7-9, 20- 

 22, 332; withdrawals from, 8, 9, 62; 

 original source of national progress, 

 17; distribution of, 21, 22, 26 ff., 31; 

 laws of, 37; additions to, 27; unknown, 

 39, 40; classification of, 42, 43; swamp 

 lands in, 51; cost of, 58, 59; future of, 

 63; income of, 65, 66; available for 

 recreation, 69 ff.; scenic areas of, 71 ff. 



Public Land States, the, 10, 22; in- 

 equality in, 23 



Public Lands, see Public Domain 



Puebloes, the, 210 



Quasi-public lands, 43 



Railroads, grants to, 8, 31, 32, 43, 44, 

 87, 88, 100; a "logging," 101 



Rainbow Bridge, 76, 286, 293 



"Rainbow of the Desert," 234, 236 



Ravalli, Father, 223 



Reclamation, of deserts, 153 ff.; nation- 

 al, 158 ff.; the Act, 159; contrast be- 

 tween beginning of national and pres- 

 ent, 163 ff.; public enthusiasm for, 

 166, 170 ff.; future of, 175, 176, 180; 

 necessity for, in East, 180-183 



Reclamation Projects, 8, 28, 153 ff.; 

 purpose of, 5; beginning of, 55; funda- 

 mental changes on, 160; list of, 161, 

 162, 167; table of settlement and re- 

 sults, 162, 163; failures on, 163 ff., 

 174; construction results, 171, 172; 

 successful, 173, 174; economic side, 

 174, 175; town and city responsibili- 

 ties for near-by, 176; recreational op- 

 portunities of, 177, 178; area, num- 

 ber and administrative department, 

 332 



Reclamation Service, creation of, 169 



Recreation Act, 69 



Recreation, federal lands'used for, 4, 5, 

 230, 332, 344 ff.; Public Lands avail- 

 able for, 69 ff.; National Forests used 

 for, 140 ff.; National Parks used for, 

 250, 251; value of Reclamation Proj- 

 ects for, 177, 178; National outdoor 

 conference on, 327 ff.; sudden popu- 

 larity of outdoor, 334 ff.; withdrawals, 

 332 



Redington, Paul G., quoted, 313 

 Red River, swamp area, 51 

 Redwood trees, of western forest, 96 

 Reed, Franklyn W., quoted, 32, 79 

 Reindeer farming in Alaska, 53, 54 

 Refuges, wild life, 313, 314, 331, 340 

 Reservations, temporary, 4; Indian, 8, 

 23, 200 ff., 220; specialized, 23; crea- 

 tion of, 56; federal bird, 70; light- 

 house, 70; first forest, 109 ff.; the 

 Everglades, 210 



Resources, natural, reservation of, 55 ff.; 

 public and private rights to, 55 ff., 

 n6ff. 

 Rhode Island, area of, 19; forest laws 



passed by, 106 

 Riggs, the, 223 

 Right-of-Way Act, 100 

 Riley, Smith, 80; quoted, 322 

 Rio Grande reclamation project, 162, 



167 



Riverton project, 162, 167, 168 

 Roads, for motoring, n, 12, 69 ff.; fed- 

 eral, 71; cost of, 134 

 Rockefeller, gift for Great Smoky Na- 

 tional Park, 258 

 Rocky Mountain National Park, 233, 



236, 238, 257, 276 

 Rocky Mountains, reserved federal lands 



in, 71; forests on, 94; camps in, 146 

 Roosevelt, Theodore, 112, 123, 126, ,157, 

 311, 348; quoted, 113-122, 159, 166; 

 his part in nature conservation, 54, 

 56, 33p ff. 



Roosevelt Dam, the, 154, 170 

 "Roosevelt Memorial National Park," 



proposed, 73 

 Ross, Senator, 105 

 Rusk, J. M., 310 

 Russia, land purchased from, 27 



St. Francis Basin, 51 



Salt River, Reclamation Project, 154, 



161, 162, 167, 170; reservoirs, 178 

 Samoa, American, area of, 19, 52 

 San Francisco Mountain, 310 

 Sangre de Cristo, 94, 130 

 Santa Fe, grants to, 31 

 Sato, quoted, 36 

 Saturday Evening Post, 198 

 Savannah River, 51 

 School lands, 61, 62 

 Schools, on reclamation projects, 160 

 Schurz, Carl, 109 

 Scotts Bluff, 287, 292 

 Scouts, 336 



Seminoles, the, 201, 210 

 Sequoia National Park, 232, 235, 236, 



238, 246, 276, 277 

 Sequoias, in western forest, 95, 96 

 Seton, Thompson, 334 

 Seward Peninsula, reindeer problem in, 



le, table of withdrawals'and classifi- 

 cations, 197 



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