158 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Frps., 1898. 
The following table will show the districts to which they belong—their 
number and area :— 
istri ber of Area in Area in 
Maries preeeepress Acres. Square Miles. 
South Dakota—(The Black Hill Reserve) 1 967,630 1,500 
Wyoming— 
Big Horn .., th A a ob Ae. 1 1,198,080 1,870 
Yellowstone Park re 1 1,168,640 1,826 
Teton Reserve Hf i 1 829,440 1,300 
Montana— 
Flat Head Reserve (in the North) ... oh 2 1,382,400 2,160 
abhi and Clark (in the South) i : 2 2,926,080 4,570 
‘aho— 
Priest River Reserve «... 4 1 645,120 1,000 
Bitter Root Reserve . 1 4,147,200 6,480 
Washington— 
The Washington Reserve R A 1 3,594,240 5,620 
Olympic Reserve ma 44 1 2,188, 800 3,420 
Mount Rainier Reserve ; 1 2,234,880 3,510 
Oregon— 
Bull Run and Cascade Reserve “ A 2 4,700,000 
California— : 
Stanislaus and Sierra Reserves with Yosemite and 4 6,144,000 9,600 
Sequoia National Park : 
San Gabriel and San Bernardino Reserve ... 2 1,152,000 1,800 
San Jacinto Reserve fs: 1 737,280 1,150 
a ject Cafion Reserve* a 1 64,000 100 
tah— 
The Uinta Reserve 1 960,000 1,500 
Arizona— 
The Grand Cafion Reserve... Rie 24 1 1,851,520 29,105 
Colorado— 
Pike’s Peak, Plum Creek, S. Platte Reserve ant 3 1,308,800 2,045 
White River Reserve (12,000 feet above sea level)... 1 1,280,000 2,000 
memes Mesa Reserve (10,000 feet above sea 1 696,000 1,400 
eve 
New Mexico— 
Pecos River Reserve ... 41 2) ae 4 1 804,000 475 
Collectively, these reserves comprise an area of 38,880,000 acres, or 60,000 square miles. 
*The last four contain no timber except chapparal brush of no earthly use, except in regulating the flow of 
streams from the Santa Anna Mountains. 
In considering these reserves, one is struck by a singular omission. ‘The 
finest body of timber, excepting that in Oregon, Washington, and North 
California, is that upon the San Francisco and Mogollon Plateaux. Here is 
an open forest covering thousands of square miles, composed of magnificent 
trees, mainly Douglas pines. The forest grows in an arid range, and if 
destroyed could never recover itself. No part of those plateaux has been 
reserved. 
The finest timber range of California is in the north sierra of the North 
Coast Ranges. Here are sugar-pines and redwoods, but nothing has been 
reserved. 
On the other hand, as in the case of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto 
Mountain, reservations are made where there is absolutely no timber. 
At one time it was proposed to abolish all these reservations, but eventu- 
ally it was decided to make a survey of them, and organise a Forestry Bureau 
in the Department of the Interior for the purpose of administering the 
reserves, and this has now become law. 
It may be seen from the tables given that the administration of such an 
enormous area of Forest Reserves, much of which is either located in inacces- 
sible mountain country or is devoid of any but useless timber, would entail an 
enormous expense; and, as a matter of fact, the reserves are, except in a few 
instances, not administered at all. 
