The Colorado statesman., 1922-03-04

grazing or disposal under the laws of the United
States and dedicated and set apart as game
sanctuary end forest preserve for the benefit and
enjoyment @ the people, and shall hereafter be
known as the Presidents Forest"
"The Presidents Forest" If this resolution Is
passed by both houses will therefore be the name
cf 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 "The
Presidents Forest?
Because the United States Is nation governed
,by -lnws rather than by men. Presidents come
and presidents go. AS long as there is United
Estates there will be president And as long as
ttiere Is president there will be 'The Presidents
Forest"
- And "The Presidents Forest" is new in form
too. There's nothing just like 1t. It's nearest in
form to n national park. 1t has size, majesty and
beauty. Private and commercial interests are
barred. II Is n game sanctuary 1t Is purely "for
ttl1e benefit and enjoyment of the people," All of
switch closely describe national park.
Certainly 1t is far removed In form from ma
reionai The national forests as established
by law, are purely commercial and Industrial In
stitutons for the application for profit of scien-
.tinc numbering and grazing to the nations wood
dots. though as matter of fact there is instead
of profit annual deficit of a million and more
and the forest service is exploiting the national
forests recreational rivals to national parks
Anyway, "The President 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 O wild beauty spot calamity; sheep are
q catastrophe.
The movement to create 1.-The Presidents For
est has Significance that gaddens the nature
lovers heart. 1t betokens increasing national
appreciation OF the value of scenery as a natural
resource. as II national asset. 1t betokens an in
creasing national consciousness that 1t Is not well
to lay the ak to every forest to turn the cattle
and sheep loose on the shrubs and flowers of ey-
cry wild beauty spot.
The Kaibab National forest is approximately
10 miles square, and contains 1072 800 acres 1t
stands ON the Kaibab plateau which rises I'D from
the desert that surrounds 1t the north east and
west and slopes down to 5000 feet at the North
Rim Of the Grand canyon.
1.-THE Presidents Forest Is the east half of the
Ratpnb 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 oneseeded juniper and
pinon and with majestic western yellow pine
which are three and four feet through and rise
100 feet There is Douglas FIR and some
epruce Raylnes 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