LAWS, DECISIONS, AND OPINIONS APPLICABLE TO 

 THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTKATION OF NATIONAL FORESTS. 



Creation of National Forests. 



Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1095). 



Sec. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time 

 to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having 

 public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or 

 in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial 

 value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public 

 proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the 

 limits thereof. 



Designation. 



Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1256). 



* * * Forest reserves * * * shall be known hereafter as 

 National Forests * * * 



Authority to revoke, modify, or suspend proclamations. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11). 



* * * To remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to the 

 authority of the President thereunto [in regard to the National 

 Forests], the President of the United States is hereby authorized and 

 empowered to revoke, modify, or suspend any and all such Executive 

 orders and proclamations, or any part thereof, from time to time as 

 he shall deem best for the public interests : * * * 



The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any 

 Executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing 

 any forest reserve, and by any such modification may reduce the area 

 or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may vacate altogether 

 any order creating such reserve. 



Creation of additional forests restricted. 



Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1256). 



Hereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any additions 

 be made to one heretofore created within the limits of the States of 

 Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming, ex- 

 cept by act of Congress. (California added by act of Aug. 24, 1912.) 



Transfer act. 



Act of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat., 628). 



The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and 

 after the passage of this act, execute or cause to be executed all laws 

 affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the pro- 



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