Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-03

States and dedicated and set apart as game
sanctuary and forest preserve for the benefr ana
enjoyment of the people, and shall hereafter be
known as the Presidents Forest"
1.-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 1t on the south and is In
charge of the national park service of the Interior
department.
SO The Presidents Forest" Is something new
The name for one thing, is new, And why THE
Presll ents Forest?
Because the United States Is q nation governed
by laws rather than by men, Presidents come
and presidents So AS long as there is United
States there will be president. And as long as
there is president there will be 1.-THE Presidents
Forest"
And 1.-THE Presidents Forest" is new In form
too There's nothing just like II. It's nearest In
form to national park. l, 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
which closely describe national park.
Certainly II is far removed In form from ma.
tiona forest The national forests as established
by law are purely commercial and Industrial in
stltutions for the application for profit of scien.
tifc numbering and grazing to the nations wood.
lots, though as matter Of fact there is instead
of profit an annual deficit of million and more
and the forest service Is exploiting the national
forests as recreatlonal rivals to national parks
Anyway, "The Presidents Forest" viii he one for
est where the forest service cannot Insist upon
trying to combine cattle and campers, wood-chop-
pers and treelovers, sheep and tourists. Cattle
In wild beauty spot are calamity; sheep are
a catastrophe
The movement to create "The Presidents For.
est has significance that gladdens the nature.
lovers heart. 1t betokens an increasing national
appreciation Of the value of scenery as natural
resource, as national asset. II betokens an in
creasng 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 Kabab National forest is approximately
40 miles square, and contains 1072,000 acres. 1t
stands on the Kalbab plateau which rises up 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
"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 are mountains and val
leys covered with gnarled one-seeded juniper and
pinon and with majestic western yellow pine
which are three and four feet through and rise
100 feet There is some Douglas fir and some
spruce. Ravines are 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