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reservation, except under such rules and regula- 
tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of 
Agriculture. Warning is expressly given to all 
persons not to commit any of the acts herein enu- 
merated and which are prohibited by law. This 
reserve to be known as Farallon Reservation. 
Theodoke Roosevelt. 
The White House, February 27, 1909. 
[No. 1043.] 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRI- 
CULTURE-FOREST SERVICE. 
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Distkict 5. 
San Francisco, Cal.', December 10, 1913. 
A 
Fish and Game Commission^ 
Mills Building, 
San Francisco, California. 
Gentlemen i On behalf of the United States 
Forest Service I want to express my appreciation 
of the opportunity you have afforded for telling the 
public something of the purposes of the service and 
of the manner in which it is undertaking to ac 
complish them. 
The fundamental purpose of the Forest Service 
is the insurance of continuous production of timber 
on the twenty-seven million acres of mountain land 
in California set aside by congress with this end in 
view. To guarantee continuous production of 
timber on this vast area, the primary requisite is 
reasonable safety from fire. 
Because the typical California forest is not 
• totally wiped out with every fire which runs over 
it, many are led to suppose that surface fires do 
little or no damage. As a matter of fact, such fires 
stop production on the area burned over for an 
