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of applying forestry on 



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the reserves along the 

 lines already begun. 



The Forest Service 

 aims to bring the ad- 

 ministration of the re- 

 serves near to the people 

 whose wants they serve, 

 and to do business 

 quickly without neglect- 

 ing any of the neces- 

 sary safeguards. Un- 

 der its methods large 

 executive authority is 

 given to local oflBicials, 

 the work is kept at a 

 high standard by fre- 

 quent inspection on the 

 ground, vexatious de- 

 lays are avoided, and 

 the practical usefulness 

 of the reserves is vastly 

 increased. 



With these changes 

 public approval 

 throughout the West 

 of the reserve policy 

 strengthens from day to 

 day. Assaults upon the 

 reserves will continue 

 from self-seeking inter- 

 ests, as well as from 

 short - sighted persons 

 who are unable to dis- 

 tinguish between an im- 

 mediate small advan- 

 tage and a great per- 

 manent good. 



I wish to bear em- 

 phatic testimony in this 

 report to the unremit- 

 ting steadiness and de- 

 votion with which the 

 members of the Forest 

 Service accepted and 

 discharged the new du- 

 ties laid upon them by 

 the transfer of the for- 

 est reserves. The change 

 of method and point of 

 view which followed 

 the transfer brought to 

 many of them new and 



