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the owners of stock, and the protection and improvement of the range 

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A still further and very striking reduction of loss through forest 

 fires from that of the preceding year, which had itself shown a most 

 remarkable decrease from years that preceded. 



The application of better methods for securing reproduction after 

 lumbering, on the National P^orests. 



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A far more active and intelligent realization on the part of the 

 public throughout the entire country of the practical importance of 

 forest preservation and the need of concerted action to avert the 

 calamity of an exhausted timber supply. 



A growing discernment of the far-reaching principle that the 

 national welfare demands the conservation of all natural resources, 



