GOVERNMENT FOREST WORK 23 
NATIONAL MONUMENTS WITHIN NATIONAL 
FORESTS 
By act of June 8, 1906, Congress provided for the 
protection of cliff dwellings, pueblo ruins, ancient 
rock paintings, unique topographic or geologic fea- 
tures, historic landmarks, groves of Yrare trees in 
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FIGURE 12.—This little fellow, living in security in the 
Pisgah game preserve, Pisgah National Forest, N. C. 
is friendly and unafraid 
danger of destruction, and other objects of historic 
and scientific interest on lands controlied by the Gov- 
ernment, and authorized the President to create by 
proclamation naticnal monuments for their preserva- 
tion. When a national monument is created within a 
national forest, it is under the jurisdiction of the 
Forest Service, which cooperates with the Bureau of 
American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution 
in protecting it and securing information regarding 
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