192 FOKBSTKY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



a comprehensive review of the subject, with recommendations and bills for the establishment of a 

 bureau of forestry in the Department of the Interior. This report has been printed as Senate 

 Document No. 105. 



The following forest reservations were created, upon the recommendation of the committee of 

 the National Acadefny of Sciences, their status as to final extent and retention as reserves being 

 still in doubt: 



Acres. 



1. Black Hills Keserve in South Dakota 967,680 



2. Big Horn Reserve in Wyoming 1,198,080 



3. Teton Forest Reserve in Wyoming 829, 440 



4. Flathead Forest Reserve in Montana 1,382,400 



5. Lewis and. Claike Forest Reserve in Montana 2, 926, 080 



6. Priest River Forest Reserve in Idaho and Washington 645,120 



7. Bitter Root Forest Reserve in Montana and Idaho 4, 147, 200 



8. Washington Forest Reserve in Washington 3, 594, 240 



9. Olympic Foi est Reserve in Washington . 2, 188,800 



10. Mount Rainier Forest Reserve in Washington 1,267,200 



11. Stanislaus Forest Reserve in California 691,200 



12. San Jaemto Forest Reserve in California 737,280 



13. Utah Forest Reserve 705,120 



Total estimated area 21,379,840 



The sundry civil appropriation bill passed June 4, 1897 (see Senate Doc. £fo. 102), set aside 

 the proclamations of February 22, 1897, suspending the reservations, which were made upon the 

 recommendation of the committee of the academy, until March 1, 1898, presumably to give time 

 for the adjustment of private claims and to more carefully delimit the reservations, an appropria- 

 tion of $150,000 for the survey of the reservations under the supervision of the Director of the 

 Geological Survey being made. The provisos attached to this appropriation embody the most 

 important forestry legislation thus far enacted by Congress. These provisos had been in the main 

 formulated in a bill known as the McEae bill (BL E. 119), which was passed by the House of 

 Eepresentatives and the Senate of the Fifty- third Congress — without, however, becoming a law; 

 and again had passed the House in the Fifty-fourth Congress, it being the legislation advocated 

 by the American Forestry Association as a first step toward a more elaborate forest administration 

 of the public timber lands. Excluding minor items, the law provides that — 



All public lands heretofore designated and leservecl by the President of the United States under the provisions 

 of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the orders foi which shall be and remain in 

 force and effect, uususpended and unrevoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved as 

 public forest reserves under said act, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in accordance w ith 

 the following provisions : 



"No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reserva- 

 tion, or for the purpose of securing favo able conditions of water ilow, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber 

 for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions or 

 of the act providing for such resei vations to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral 

 therein or for agricultural purposes than for forest purposes. 



"For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and promoting the younger growth on forest 

 reservations, the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause to bo 

 designated and appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of tiees found on such forest reservations 

 as may be compatible with the proper utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not less than 

 the appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the State or Territory 

 in which such timber reserA ation may be situated, i espectivelj , but not for export theiefrom. Before such sale 

 shall take place, notice thereof shall be given by the Commissioner of the General Land Omee for not less than 

 sixty days, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in ^hich the timber is 

 situated, if any is therein published, and if not, then m a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to the 

 reservation, and also in a newspaper of general circulation published at the capital of the State or Territory where 

 such reservation exists; payments for such timber to be made to the receiver of the local land office of the district 

 wherein said timber may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; 

 and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the receiver of such land office to the Commissioner of 

 the General Land Office m a separate account, and shall be covered into the Treasuiy. Such timber, before being 

 sold, shall be marked and designated, and shall be cut and lemoved under the supenision of some person appointed 

 for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, not interested in the purchase or removal of such timber nor in 

 the employment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make a report in writing to the Commissioner of 



