Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-21
FOREST SERVICE.
The New Name of the Bureau
of Forestry.

From July I the Bureau Of
Forestry is to be officially known
as the Forest Service. The
change was made by Congress
last winter, and it provided for
the Government work in forestry
during the coming year, and sig
nalized an important advance in
the scope of that work. The
actual control and administration
of the national forest reserves,
formerly under the charge of the
Land Office of the Department of
the Interior, is now in the hands
of the Forest Service, the only
branch of the public service pos
sessed of the scientific and tech
nical knowledge necessary for the
enlightened care and use of the
forests. This means that the re-
serves are to be made to yield to
the people of the country the
largest benefits which intelli-
gent management can get out of
them Use, not reservation from
use, is the essential purpose tor
which they exist-but use under
such conditions as shall make
their benefits permanent.
Control of the reserves was
turned over to the Bureau of For
estry last February, and the nee
essary reorganization is now well
advanced. In taking up its new
work, however, the Forest Ser
vice will not abandon any part of
the old field of the Bureau. It's
broad purpose will continue to be
the furtherance by every possible
means of the movement to intro
duce practical forestry every
where. 1t will do its utmost to
assist this movement among pri-
vate owners, and in the several
states, not only by scientific in.
5; vestigations but by advice and
, cooperation in the actual work o+
t applying forestry, This is i'm
peritively demanded if the gen.
eral welfare is not to suffer pro
foundly in the future from {
shortage of timber supply. The
Forest Ssrvice will continue The
studies of forest products, o
: methods of making timber more
/ durable, of tree planting, and o
: all subjects which can promot,
z wiser and more profitable use o
y our second great resource-for il
y the value of their total contribu
: tion to our needs there can be NJ
: doabt that forest products stant
next to those of agriculture.
t The field ofthe Bureau of For
{ estry has been expanded remark
f ably in the past few years. Th
S first Government recos snition Q
e forestry was in 1876, when Con
gress made an appropriation 70
a a skilled man 10 prosecute a stud
b of the forest conditions, needs
e and uses, and make a report t
a Congress. This Office was con
e tinued until the Division of Fol
: estry was created, July I, 1886
Then from a mere Office of infol
J nation the Division stepped sue
y denly into the field of actual or
:. erations, demonstrating by eS
It ample how forestry could be mad
to pay, and thus furnish the on
g argument needed to convert pr
$ vate owners from scepticism as
l. the practicableness of a theory
J. the acceptance of a proved fac
it When this was accomplished
re new epoch in the history {
1t American forestry opened. Sine
t, that time no single step forwar
d has been SO important as til;
Ig which the use of the new namt
r Forest Service, now marks. 'rh
ID the people OF the country, ar
d. particularly the people of tt
d. West, where the reserves ar
lie will come to realize as they gra:
ct the fact that, scientifically and 6
it fciently administered, the reserv
er will soon reach their highest {
he hency as contributors to tt
wealth and permanent pevelo
at ment of the regions in Whit
n they lie.
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