Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-09

settlement, location, occupancy,
grazing or disposal under the laws of the United
States and dedicated and set apart as game
sanctuary and forest preserve for the benefit ana
enjoyment of the people, and shall hereafter De
known as the Presidents Forest
"The Presidents Forest" if this resolution Is
passed by both houses, will therefore be the name
of approximately 100000 acres Of timber forever
set aside for the people and forever barred to pur
chaser homesteader miner, stockman lumberman,
resident, hunter and trapper Under the present
form of the resolution control will remain In the
forest service of the Agricultural department,
which controls the Kaibab National forest and all
national forests. To all intents and purposes the
forest will be part of the Grand Canyon National
park, which runs into it on the south and is in
charge of the national park service Of the Interior
department.
So 1.-The Presidents Forest" is something new.
The name, for one thing, is new, And why 1.-The
Presidents Forest"2
Because the United States Is a nation governed
by laws rather than by men, Presidents come
and presidents go. AS long as there is United
States there will be president. And as long as
there is president there will be "The Presidents
Forest"
And "The Presidents Forest" is new in form
too. There's nothing just like it. It's nearest in
form to national park. 1t has size, majesty and
beauty. Private and commercial interests are
barred 1t is game sanctuary. 1t is purely "for
the benefit and enjoyment of the people" All of
Certainly it Is far removed in form from a ma
tional forest The national forests, as established
by law purely commercial and Industrial in
stitutions for the application for profit of scien-
titic numbering and grazing to the nations wood
lots, though a matter of fact there is instead
of a profit an annual deficit of a million and more
and the forest service Is exploiting the national
forests as recreatiOna rivals to national parks
Anyway, "The Presidents Forest will be one for
est where the forest service cannot insist upon
trying to combine cattle and campers wood-chop-
pers and tree-lovers sheep and tourists Cattle
In wild beauty spot are a calamity; sheep are
a catastrophe.
The movement to create "The Presidents For
est has a significance that gladdens the nature
lovers heart 1t betokens increasing national
appreciation of the value Of scenery as natural
resource, as national asset. 1t betokens an in
creasing national consciousness that it is not well
to lay the ak to every forest to turn the cattle
and sheep loose the shrubs and flowers of ev.
cry wild beauty spot.
The Kalbab National forest Is approximately
40 miles square, and contains 1912 900 acres If
stands on the Kabab plateau, which rises I'D from
the desert that surrounds 1t on the north east and
west and slopes down to 5000 feet at the North
Rim of the Grand canyon.
THE Presidents Forest" is the east half of the
Kaibab National forest. The northwest part of
The Presidents Forest shoulders up on to Buck
skin mountain SO there mountains and val
leys covered with gnarled one-seeded Juniper and
plnOn and with majestic western yellow nine
which are three and four feet through and rise
100 feet There Is some Douglas fir and some
spruce Ravines clad with the lighter green
OF the aspen which changes to vivid yellow gold
and red In the fall In the little parks within the
forest the trees stop halfway down the trimming
slopes and leave room for white clover. grass and