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which the great irrigation dams have been constructed, conserving 

 the waters of large drainage basins, the land in which was in part 

 owned by private parties. The Forest Service has recently sent 

 out a synopsis of an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court 

 of Maine, "holding that the legislature of the State has a con- 

 stitutional right to pass laws regulating the cutting of timber 

 on private lands, if the cutting is liable to be detrimental to the 

 public welfare." It was also stated "that there was nothing in 

 the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the enforcement 

 of a forest law of that kind." 



In order to give smaller administrative 



National Forests. 



New Names FOR ^^.^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ convenient 



names a general system of re-districting 

 of the National forests took effect on July ist. The National 

 forests of California are now: Klamath, Trinity, California 

 (Stony Creek), Shasta, Modoc (Modoc and Warner Mountains), 

 Plumas (Plumas and Diamond Mountain), Lassen (Lassen 

 Peak), Tahoe, Mono (created), Stanislaus, Sierra (Sierra 

 North), Inyo (Inyo and Sierra East), Sequoia (Sierra South), 

 Monterey (Monterey, Pinnacles and San Benito), San Luis (San 

 Luis Obispo), Santa Barbara, Angeles (San Bernardino and San 

 Gabriel), Cleveland (San Jacinto and Trabuco Canon). 



On May 30, 1908, an amendment was passed 

 Extension of the ^^t^nding the Act of June 11, 1906, which 

 Homestead Law. provides for the settlement and listing of 

 tracts of agricultural land included within National forests, to 

 apply in all counties of the State of Cahfornia, with the exception 

 of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. 



