The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-01
The Government Now Owns
267, 900 Acres in New
Hampshire and Maine :.
APPROVAL ALSO
ON $4,000 ACRES
Land Acquired in the White Mountain
Region Close to Sources Of Androscog-
gin, saco, Connecticut and Ammonoo-
sic Rivers.

WASHINGTON, june President
Wilson has issued proclamation estab-
fishing three new National forests in
the East-the White Mountain, in
Maine and New Hampshire, the Shen-.
andoah in Virginia and West Virginia,
and the Natural Bridge in Virginia.
Proclaiming the forests is the final
step in carrying out the law for build
| ing up eastern national forests through
| the purchase of lands in the mountains.
Ever since the law was passed in 1911,
| the government has been engaged in
acquiring lands abont the Southern APP
paIachians As the lands are bought or
| contracted for they are put under adj
ministration as Purchase Areas -
pending the time when their aecumula-
| ton has reached a point justifying the
proclamation which gives the lands
their final status. The Pisgah National
| forest in North Carolina, and the Ala
bama National forest, in Alabama, arc
4 the only eastern areas which had re-
ccived this status before the new proc
/ lamations were issued.
is located in Grafton, Carroll, and Coos
counties n H., and Oxford county,
Me. The government has actually TAX
en- title to about 267,000 acres and in
addition about 124, 600 acres more have
been approved for purchase, making .
total of about 39i 900 acres under fed
eral protection. This forest protects
in part the watersheds of the Andres
coggin, Saco, Connecticut and Ammo
noosuc rivers. The White Mountain
region, long famous as one of the mos
Important recreation grounds Of TIL,
nation and located as it is in clos,
proximity to the most densely populat
ed portion of the country, has grea
value not only for the protection o
streamflow and the production of tim
Der but also as a public playground
and is administered with view to it
iase fer all, three purposes. aaH
The Shenandoah National forest
: situated in Rockingham, Augusta
f Bath. and Highland counties, Va, an
n Pendleton county, w. Va. The govern
d ment has acquired to date slightly i
i excess of 100000 acres, and an add
tional area of approximately 65, 900 acre
iido bsch dHDioNNu 1Oi HuithuoSs iiion
I, ing total of approximately $500
J acres under federal protection. TIL
! forest is for the most part on til
u watershed of the Shenandoah river an
it also protects portion of the water
II sheds of the Potomac and the Jane
= On the area and still intact are irene
= systems constructed during the Civ
! war under the direct supervision {
!, Stonewall Jackson
= The Natural Bridge National fore
q is situated in Rockingham, Nelson, An
herst, Botetourt and Bedford countie
.. Va. The government has actually IL
. quired title to little over 10000 acre
II and an additional area of approximate
ID 10000 acres has been approved for pu
w chase. The forest, which protects
e. portion of the watershed of the Jam
a river, does not include the Natur
le Bridge, but this scenic feature is wit
in three or four miles of the boundar
1t is expected that visitors to the I
gion will take advantage of the oppo
tunities which the forest affords
recreation and outdoor life in the mou
I'll tains.