Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-31
TIE FOREST RESERVE
Attention of Congress TO Be
Called to Opportunities at
Mississippi Headwaters.
Professor Pammel. Of Ames.
Gives Out Resolutions Passed
at Recent Meeting.
Congress Urged to Take Action
For National Park and
Forest Reserve.

Ames Dec. S1.-Prof l.. II. Pammel,
Of the department of botany of the
Iowa State College. who is much inter-
ested in the question Of forest reserves
and national parks, has given out the
following resolutions passed at the re-
cent meeting of the Iowa Park and FOR
estry Association at Des Moines, which
will be brought to the notice of the
Iowa delegation in Washington.
in view of the fact that there are
tracts Of timber land included in the
Leach Lake reservation in Minnesota
at the headwaters of the Mississippi
river, suitable for a national park ana
forest reserve and in view of the fact
that other tracts of timber land in the
northern part of Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and other states and territories In
the union from which the timber has
been removed and which nave reverted
back to the government are suitable ter
forestry purposes and should again be
covered with forests for the benefit OF
coming generation. therefore be 1t
Resolved, That the Iowa Park and
Forestry Association hereby petitions
congress to take favorable action on
the following recommendations:
Il. The segregation for the park
and forestry purposes of the said tract
|Of land at the headwaters of the Missis-
sippi river for the purpose of conserv-
ing its water supply by preserving It's
timber and the setting apart for similar
PURPOSES of such other lands as con-
gress may control in the states OF Min
nesota, Wisconsin and other states, es-
pecially in the Rocky Mountain and
Sierra Nevada regions, to the end that
the timber supply OF said states may be
at least partially saved or restored,
and that the forests on such tracts may
serve to conserve the moisture and to
protect and preserve wild game In said
regions.
so The purchase of land by the
government for a southern Appalachian
national park.
So The Withholding from the market
by the government of public lands COW
cred with timber and making provisions
for the sale OF the mature timber there
on under the supervision Of technical
~ trained forester.
"a. The enactment OF a law embody-
ing the recommends ton OF Hon. Bfnger
Herman, commissioner OF the general
land office, In his last annual report
that all public lands which are more
valuable for forest usese than for other
purposes shall be withdrawn from set
.tiernent. entry, sale or other disposition.
and be held for the protection and util-
ization of the timber thereon. in accord
ance with the provisions OF the forest
reservation law
20. The adoption OF the recommends
ton of the said commissioner OF the
general land Office that the president OF
the United States be vested with the au-
thority to reserve tracts OF government
land for national park purposes without
approval or further action of congress.
&C. The concentration OF forestry
work and the establishment of ma
tional system of forestry, whereby the
supervision of the forest reserves shall
be placed In charge OF trained foreSters
under one responsible head. the United
States department Of agriculture, to the
end that more effective system of for
estry be introduced In this country.
Resolved that the Iowa delegation in
congress in hereby respectfully re-
quested to urge the enactment OF laws
entbodydng the recommendations herein
contained" Signed,
B. SHIMEK,