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are almost all timbered and lie mainly within national forests. 
Some of the islands in the Kodiak region are timbered, but west- 
ward from Kodiak none have timber. 
With respect to their availability for fur farming, these islands 
fall into four classes : 
(1) Ten islands from Prince William Sound to the Shumagin 
group; namely, Little Koniuji, Simeonof, Chirikof, Long, Marmot, 
Pearl, Elizabeth (fig. 5), Middleton, Aghiyuk, and Chowiet. All 
of the islands in this group are leased and occupied for fur farming, 
the administration being by the Secretary of Agriculture through 
the Biological Survey. 
(2) Islands in the Aleutian Islands Reservation are available for 
occupancy under permit and are administered by the Secretary of 
Agriculture through the Biological Survey. Applications for per- 
FiG. 5. — Elizabeth Island, leased for fur farming by the Biological Survey. The 
timber is fairly dense in the valleys. This is also true of Pearl and Marmot 
Islands, similarly leased 
mits to occupy these islands should be sent to the office of the Bio- 
logical Survey, Juneau. 
(3) Islands on national forests are administered by the Secretary 
of Agriculture through the Forest Service, and practically all such 
islands suitable for fox farming are already under permit for that 
purpose. On the Tongass Forest, in southeastern Alaska, 150 such 
permits are in effect; and on the Chugach Forest in the Prince Wil- 
liam Sound region, 36. Inquiries regarding the use of national- 
forest land for fox-farming purposes should be addressed to the 
Forest Supeiwisor, Cordova, Alaska, or Forest Supervisor, Ketchi- 
kan, Alaska, who are in charge of the Chugach and Tongass National 
Forests, respectively. 
(4) Other islands, except a few small reserves, are of the public 
domain and under the jurisdiction of the General Land Office, De- 
partment of the Interior. Xo legal authority exists for leasing or 
granting title to these islands. A few are situated in southeastern 
Alaska, but the majority are west of Seward and Cook Inlet. Many 
