Opinion ID: 741730
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Heading: The National Forest Lands

Text: 12 In addition to extending the time of entry under the 1902 Act and describing the entry process, the 1905 Act authorized the President to set apart and reserve lands in the Reservation as a forest reserve prior to opening. 33 Stat. 1070. Pursuant to this power, on July 14, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation designating some 1,010,000 acres within the Uintah Valley Reservation as an addition to the Uintah National Forest Reserve. Proclamation of July 14, 1905, 34 Stat. 3113, 3116. The proclamation also declared that the unallotted lands in the Uintah Valley Reservation, which were not otherwise reserved, would be opened to entry, settlement and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws. Id. at 3120.