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RECOMMENDATIONS. a5 
price to such as may apply therefor, this to be done in order to induce 
persons to assist in clearing the forest with all possible speed. 
(3) Removal from South Dakota.—It has been pointed out that the 
great mass of dead timber now in the Black Hills Forest Reserve can 
not be used in South Dakota. It is therefore recommended (again as 
a measure of protection for the living forest) that the forest-reserve 
law be so amended as to permit the shipment of the dead and beetle- 
infested timber from the State of South Dakota. 
In making such a change, it ought to be understood that shipping 
timber from the State should in no way interfere with the industries 
dependent upon such timber in the State where the timber is situated. 
The case under consideration is an example in point. The mining 
interests of the Black Hills are absolutely dependent for their timber 
supply on the wood in the Black Hills, and if any timber is removed 
from the region of the Black Hills, i. e., from the State of South 
Dakota, it should be taken from regions in the Black Hills which are 
not tributary to the important mining interests in the Hills. In other 
words, if any timber is removed from the Black Hills, it should come 
from the region south and west of the Little Spearfish River. 
(4) Timber which should be removed.—The timber which should be 
removed is the dead and beetle-infested timber. For the purposes of 
inspection dead timber should be considered as timber which comes 
from trees whose leaves are no longer green—that is, the ** sorrel tops,” 
the *‘red tops,” and the **black tops.” ** Beetle-infested timber” has 
been specified by Dr. Hopkins. 
This dead timber will be **blue timber,” and much of it is now 
decayed. Contractors should be required to cut and remove only such 
timber as is perfectly sound, without any signs of decay. | 
