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( 
THE NATIONAL FOREST POLICY. 
Now and then from the West come protests 
and complaints against the policy under which 
the National forests are managed. Some of 
these, says The Outlook, are made in good 
faith, and should be met with a clear statement 
of just what the National forest policy is and 
how it is being carried out; others are the result 
of knowledge that the theft of timber, land, and 
minerals, and monoply of the range, will no 
longer be permitted. Much of the honest op- 
position to the creation. of National forests 
comes from a wrong idea of their purposes and 
use. They are the first outcome of a general 
policy that is slowly taking shape in the public 
mind—the conviction that our natural resources, 
forests, waterways, and land, are put here to 
be used in a definite way, and that this use must 
be open to all alike. 
National forests are created to insure to the 
home-builder and to home industries a per- 
petual supply of timber, to preserve the forest 
cover on watersheds and so to insure a steady 
and constant streamflow, and to make certain 
the fair and lawful use of forest and range. They 
are open to all persons, with the sole restriction 
that their permanent resources shall be used in 
such a way that they will not become exhausted, 
but will remain for the use of others in. the 
future development of the Nation. The wise 
use of all their resources—timber, water, land, 
minerals, and range—is encouraged in every 
way. The chief aim of their administration is to 
make them large factors in the upbuilding of 
the West and in the permanent wealth of the 
entire country. 
Perhaps the chief objection urged against 
‘National forests is that their creation locks up 
the resources of the region, checks industry, and 
prohibits settlement. _ As a matter: of fact. 
exactly the opposite is true. All resources of 
the National forests are open to use. Com- 
mercial enterprises are welcome. Stores, hotels. 
power plants, and mills can be erected and 
opeated without unnecessary restrictions. Pros- 
pectors and miners are free to travel over a 
forest, and explore, locate, and develop claims 
exactly as they would anywhere on the public 
domain. If it is necessary to include smal! areas 
of argricultural land within a National forest, 
home-seekers can select any of it, have it listed. 
build their houses and barns, patent it, and have 
it always for a home. The range within the for- 
ests is grazed by all kinds of stock. Appro- 
priation of water is entirely a State affair, and 
the creation of a National forest affects it in no 
way whatever. In every case the chief con- 
ditions placed upon these uses are that they 
must be for the best interests of all concerned, 
and must conform to the law. Mining claims 
cannot be taken up simply for the timber on 
them. To enter agricultural land and patent it, 
the claimant must take the land for a home, not 
for other purposes. Users of the range must 
graze their stock only on that part to which 
they have the best right; the large owner can- 
not crowd out the’small one. These conditions 
cannot hinder development, but are necessary 
for it in its true sense. 
Thus National forests in no way act as a wall 
around the resources of a region. Nor have 
persons who obey the laws anything to fear 
from them. Though they touch in one place or 
another the activities of a majority of the people 
‘ of the West. they are first of all for the home- 

builder. Timber is always on hand for his 
needs. he is certain of a steady supply of water, 
his stock is assured of grazing ground, while 
the Government, protects the forest from fire, 
which otherwise might menace his nroperty or 
even his life. Upon the home-builder depends 
the future of the West, and by helping ‘him, 
more than in any other way, the National forests 
assist in the best development of the: regions in 
which they lie. 
Strong protests have in some cases been made 
against the charge for permits to graze stock 
on National forests and for other special uses. 
The principle upon .which a fee is charged is 
quite clear. and is as old as our form of gov- 
ernment. The National forests are not the ex- 
clusive property of those who use them. They 
belong to all the people, who should derive 






















































