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and tlie eagerness of such demands. In meeting them it is the public 

 rather than any private interest which is at stake. It is plain that a 

 great oppoi^tunity has presented itself at a critical time. If this 

 Bureaii can be equipped to meet the demand before destruction has 

 gone too far, the extensive protection of woodlands by the practice of 

 forestry will certainly be attained. The only obstacle is present ina- 

 bility to handle the work. The Bureau is face to face with a situa- 

 tion with which it is unable to cope. Not only are the demands already 

 made upon it fai- beyojul its present capacity to meet, but there is 

 grave danger that vast areas of the forests will have disappeared before 

 the Bureau of Forestry can be made ready to use the opportunity to 

 save them. 



The making of working plans for the handling of small tracts of for- 

 est, such as woodlots, is a part of the most important educational work 

 of this Bureau. The results of such work are by no means confined 

 to the area or even to the neighlwrhood immediately concerned. Every 

 such plan is a plain and practical demonstration of what is needed on 

 similar holdings in the same region, and as such is of use to all those 

 who wish or who maybe brought to wish to manage and improve their 

 own woodlands. 



Large operations must always be conducted by trained foresters. 

 Not so the small cuttings of the average farmer. The work of the 

 Bureau in this direction must be along the line of teaching every 

 woodlot owner to become his own forester. During the year the 

 studies of woodlot problems already made have taken shape in pub- 

 lications of the greatest practical value to woodlot owners in nearly 

 every region where such holdings occur. 



Not less useful to the farmers of the treeless West are the planting 

 plans prepared by this Bureau to assist them in selecting wisely and 

 planting successfully the trees whose shelter gives so large an added 

 value to their farms. 



At the end of the fiscal year for which this report is made the fol- 

 lowing organization was, by j^our approval, established for the Bureau 

 of Forestry : 



Forester, GiflEord Pinohot. 



Forest Measurements, Overton W. Price, assistant forester, in charge. 



Forest Management, Thomas H. Sherrard, assistant forester, in charge. 



Dendrology, George B. Sud worth, assistant forester, in charge. 



Forest Extension, William L. Hall, assistant forester, in charge. 



Forest Products, Hermann von Schrenk, in charge. 



Records, Otto Luebkert, in charge. 



forest management. 



Public Lands. 



northern minnesota. 



Under the provisions of the act of June 27, 1902 (32 Stat., 400), 

 amending the act of January 14, 1899 (25 Stat., 642), known as the 

 Morris bill, the Forester of the Department of Agriculture is charged 

 with the selection, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the 

 Interior, of 231,400 acres of land from certain of the Chippewa Indian 

 reservations in northern Minnesota. This area includes 200,000 acres 

 of pine land, 25,000 acres of agricultural land, and an amount equiva- 

 lent to 10 sections to be reserved from sale or settlement. The act 

 provides that the 225,000 acres of pine and agricultural lands, after 



