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the nation and the protection of our property and 

 person.. 



Such citizens demand careful, patient consideration, 

 whether encountered in the mines, factories, and farms 

 of the East or on the mountains and plains of the 

 West. And this is especially true of the Western 

 forest reserve management, because it embodies a 

 radical innovation on their customs, rights, and life. 



Many persons dwell in the towns, villages, and the 

 country throughout these reserves and in the irri- 

 gated and unirrigated districts below and about the 

 reserves. They are cattlemen, horsemen, sheepmen, 

 farmers, or miners, as the case may be, and the con- 

 fidence and cooperation of each of these men, espe- 

 cially the stockmen, is necessary to a full protection 

 of the forest reserves and a full realization of the high 

 purposes of forestry. The administration needs their 

 confidence and cooperation, and they need the pro- 

 tection of fair, just, and intelligent regulations and 

 management in the grazing as in all other regulations 

 for the protection of their interests in whatever -class 

 they fall. 



President Roosevelt, standing in the pine forest on 

 the rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, a few 

 months ago, said of our Arizona forest reserves, "Use 

 them for grazing, for farming, for lumber, for what- 

 ever they are best adapted, but so use them that you 

 will not destroy their usefulness for future genera- 

 tions." And in his heart every man in that audience 

 said, "Amen." The difference comes only when you 

 attempt to decide what use is harmful and what use 

 is protective in its results, honest differences as yet 

 unsettled, and usually the theorist who rushes over 

 the reserve on a hurried tour of inspection or rides 

 through on a train at forty miles an hour is the most 

 positive as to necessary regulations and results. 



