TO USE OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



vation. Under whatever law it is taken up, the land 

 and all its resources pass out of the hands of the people 

 forever. Consider now what happens when this open 

 public domain is declared a National Forest. 



TO THE HOME SEEKER. 



Wkat happens to the home seeker? When a National 

 Forest is created the home maker is not interfered with in 

 the least. In the first place, before the Forest is created, 

 agricultural lands are carefully excluded from the bound- 

 aries. It often happens, however, that there are little 

 patches of agricultural land so located within the bounda- 

 ries that it is impossible to cut them out. Such lands 

 are open to settlement. Congress has extended the 

 homestead law, slightly modified, to the National For- 

 ests. The home seeker can travel all through a Forest, 

 pick out the agricultural land he wants for a home, apply 

 for it, have it listed, settle upon it when listed, enter it, 

 build his home, cultivate his fields, patent it, and spend 

 the rest of his days there. The only thing he must be 

 careful about is to obey the law and take the land for a 

 home, and not for other purposes. 



A National Forest, then, does not in the least shut 

 out real settlement. It encourages it. The more set- 

 tlers, the more men on hand to fight fires, the better 

 protection the Forest will get, and the better and fuller 

 will be the use of all its resources. 



TO THE PROSPECTOR AND MINER. 



What happens to prospecting and mining? They go 

 on just as if there were no National Forest there. The 

 prospector is absolutely free to travel about and explore 



