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(XXVII.) UNITED STATES FOREST POLITICAL HISTORY. 

 First Period, up to 1800 — " Early Regulations." 



Exeter (now New Hampshire) regulates oak cutting 1640 



Pennsylvania ordains that " The grantee must keep the one- 

 sixth part of land (granted in Pennsylvania) in forest.. 1682 



New Hampshire fines the cutting of mast trees on ungranted 

 land arid appoints the first forest official, " Surveyor 

 General of Forests " 1708 



All thirteen States adopt forest fire laws, modeled after Euro- • 



pean patterns but without European police 1780 



Travels of the two Micheaux and the publication of their 



" North American Sylva " ; 1785-1805 



Second Period, 1800-1870 — "Stagnation of Forest Policy.'' 



Congress appropriates $200,000 for the purchase of naval 



timber and timber lands on some of the Georgia coast 



islands I799 



Congress authorizes the President to reserve live oak and 



cedar tracts in the Louisiana Purchase for naval use. . . . 1817 



(About 250,000 acres thus reserved in the succeeding years.) 

 Congress authorizes the President to use land and naval 



forces for timber protection, in parks only (still in use) . . 182a 



Congress appropriates $20,000 for silvicultural experiments 



with live oak 1827 



Congressional act punishing persons " cutting or destroying 



live oak, red cedar, or other trees growing on U. S. land," 1831 



First Forestal Census, reporting 31,000 saw-mills, averaging 



$400 value of annual output (prices higher than now) .... 1840 



Great development of the lumber industries by the rapid 



opening of the Lake States, and the building of railroads 1865 



Appearance of scattering articles in agricultural reports and 



magazines in regard to indirect utility of the forest 



(mostly translated from European works) 1860-1870 



Third Period, 1870-1902 — " Infancy of Forest Policy." 



First attempt to canvass the forest resources of the U. S. by 



Prof. F. W. Brewer (ninth census) 1870 



First publication on forest policy by Dr. J. A. Warder, and 

 by G. P. Marsh, on " The Earth as Modified by Human 

 Action" 1873 



