Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-19
GROWTH OF FORESTS
Act Of Congress Passed More Than a
Century Ago.
TEE NATIONAL PARKS AND RESERVES
Investigation by Mr.. Pinchot Of
Department Of Agriculture.
TREE PLANTING IN WEST

TpEE NTINn I'M WEST
|
an ssa.ion VI 'he sun5est y, u.s.,
| in the United States by Mr.. Clifford Pinchot.
| forester of the Department of Agriculture.
has deyeloped that az long ago as the last
| decade ~ ~. .,rh...,+h o.n.r-,, +ho Naw
"a .-e .e.' o
fork society Ior the promotlcn Oh asficui-
| ture, arts and manufactures. and in the early
years of the nineteenth the Massachusetts
| Soc;e,v FOR tho Promotion of Agriculture
" e W -
look actlon TO protect ana promote ehe
growth of forests.
! More than a hundred wears ago Congress
passed act for the purchase of timber
suitable for the use of the navy or of land
on which such timber was growing. This
law re-enacted In 1871 and supplemented IN
ls2o, 1s22, 1877, 1873 and 1881, led to the
purchase ana partial protectlon OF 244'ooo
acres OF 1orest-oear1ns land IN florida. Ala
paiha, mississippi ana LOUISIANA anu IN
FLORIDA to some partial successful efforts at
me culture OF the hVe oak
me movement on the part OF the puoIc
grew . surely tnougn Slowly, tor many years,
~ ~ ~as NJ. un.ii apout lMo years aso
Ina. .he peopie sener any oecale aroused
~; ~ me ianpoi .alce " me sovernInent tah
fnsests aaiai nt,S1 e *h enan oa
owneS nv tbe Ifnit.d Ststa % Iii. g. sne'
oasted osrtain ,naisa nio ut; a. sus
Sariss sa-vad to cnnarm tbeir dasir. hiiity
as whole and conerass that vear annro,
priated S1T5 OO0 Tor Their cara and nrasar.
walton. President MCKINLEY has taken
great interest in the subject and the area
of all the reserves esta bIished by him thus
far Is 67OS, 425 acres
The force EMPLOYED for the care and pro-
lection of the forest reserves under the
general land Office consists of nine SUPER
intendents, thirty-nine supervisors and
number Of forest rangers, which in summer
attains $50, but which varies with the sea-
sons and danger from fire. Protection
against fire, the foremost enemy Of forests
| in America, is the most pressing and i'm
portant duty which devolves upon this
force.
Park. and Forc.t R...rx..
,,. -.
Inc hatiohat pai As oiher from FOREST re-
serves chiefly In the fact no numbering can
be carried on within them: that the mining
laws excent in the case or tn. Mount
n..>-..a, -, =
iNa'iiiei >a'io"i a. A. w iio' apply " 'nein'
that their game animals are fully p1 otect-
ed. and that they are under the care Of
the troops of the regular army, assigned to
that duty by the Secretary of War, but
| under the orders for that purpose of the
Secretary of the Interior and reporting to
him. The best known and the largest Of
the national parks is the Yellowstone, with
an area of 2, 142 72O acres, located in Wy
on;ng, with small portions in Montana and
Idaho The others are the Yosemite Ma
tional Park 967 $50 acres: the Seuuoia Ma
tioual Park. 161. $50 acres. and the General
Grant National Park 2 $50 acres all in
California, and the Mount Rainier National
Park POI 800 acres in Washington.
Apart from the attempts of lumbermen
in the eastern spruce regions, many of
which were successful, to cut their timber
so as to get a second crop, the first instance
of systematic forest management in the
United States occurred on the land of Mr.
Geo w Vanderbilt at Biltmore N. c. be-
ginning in 1892 From that time although
the work at Blitmore sun continued stead ,
~ an 1;n.tios ~ forastrv 70 Israe nrvate
tracts made little progress. Since then.
however. under the impetus of an offer Of
advice ana assistance from the DIVISION OF
oist ia .ne a 49,, ~ rant.ar ~,
der advisement In considerable numbers,
and practical work has already been under
wav on considerable areas for between one
and two wears January Of this wear the to-
tai area for the manaeement of which assist
arce had been asked Of the division of fores
trv wac more than Q OOO on acres Inmher
comnan ies and forest-ownine dissertations
as well as individuals are directinx their
attention with increa sing seriousness and
+, eouencv towar I'd nractical forestry
Al first and until recently nureiv bureau
of information. the division Of forestry has
become within tho nast two vears an active
na rticnant In nractical forest work IN the
woods throughout the United States
Amonp the federal or9a nizations concerned
with forest work the Sivision IT forastrv 10
alone rasnonsihIa for the nrooro.. ~ +ha
science and art of 1orestrv and for Tho ,,ast
interests which are invoIvad IN Tho snresd
Of consarvativa forestry over the anormous
nrivota bnldinSs Of sorcst ,ana IN ~ ITn;teS
S,stss Ire worI hos recen,,n has, 80
gsni1sd tbromobnut Til. ra,raeni..tion
tnaathar n,itb tha fac+ tha1 ~ es,,i III
nrsctica ns tbe Si,ision ~. . I oi t',1an,
~ ~ nrasant a tttt1,1a - ,ha &C.. n .Sp.Iat
toward forestrv insti1es rassreune ~ ~
scona of work " -"
~
Work In the Field.
The work of the division ia now chiefly in
the field Its ofBca worl 10 oroarized ~,
Wv 49, 40 ~ vi
scaie suihciehl 10 support tne neio work
and secure the best results, but the princi-
pal scene Of its activities Is In the woods.
At nresent all tho u,orL or III. d;,,s,o, !,
assipnsd to four sect,ons a.ch u,t,h 10. 20
Of sneciai knowleIea and nma,iGnat;o,s a at
its bead ,rhaea re tha saotiora ~ ,,o.i;. q.
Plans of economic tree planting, of special
INVESTIGATIONS and OF ONCE work.
,arts - So,sst ot .h a.ioh WIN ex-
fTnired States the division of forestrv 10 he
coming in fact what it has long been in in
tention. the center of all forest activity in
United States fhrnnph he