Proceedings of the American Forest Congress Held at Washington, D.C., January 2 to 6, 1905, Under the Auspices of the American Forestry Association. ...Association, 1905 - 474 pages |
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acres American Forestry Association amount annual basin Black Hills Bureau of Forestry cent Company Congress conservative cooperage coöperation cost denuded destruction dollars drainage basin estry fact feet forest cover forest lands forest reserves future Gifford Pinchot Government grazing growth hemlock importance increase industry interests irrigation Land Office lignite logging longleaf pine lumber lumbermen manufacturers ment methods miles mills miner mining mountain necessity needs Northern Pacific Railway operation owners Pennsylvania Pinchot pine plant practical present President problem profit proper protection public forest public lands purposes Queen Creek question railroad range reforestation regions regulations repeal River run-off Secretary secure Service sheep soil South square miles stockmen Stone Act streams stumpage thousand timber Timber and Stone timber lands tion to-day tracts trees U. S. Geological Survey United utilization Washington waste water supply West Western wood
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Page 374 - Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Page 379 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to Improve and. protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of the citizens of the United States...
Page 177 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 74 - Because rainfall is most abundant where forests grow, many believe that forests exert an important influence on the amount of precipitation. A more reasonable inference, however, is that rainfall is the great factor in controlling the distribution and density of forests.
Page 315 - And provided further, That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this Act [this section] may be revoked by him or his successor in his discretion, and shall not be held to confer any right, or easement, or interest in, to or over any public land, reservation, or park.
Page 402 - The American measure to which this refers has been endorsed by the President and by Secretary McAdoo. It has already passed the House of Representatives and is now pending in the Senate.
Page 6 - ... that henceforth the movement for the conservative use of the forest is to come mainly from within, not from without ; from the men who are actively interested in the use of the forest in one way or another, even more than from those whose interest is philanthropic and general. The difference means to a large extent the difference between mere agitation and actual execution, between the hope of accomplishment and the thing done.
Page 319 - And any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been or which may be shown to be such, and subject to entry under the existing mining laws of the 263 United States and the rules and regulations applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained.
Page 9 - It is difficult to imagine what such a timber famine would mean to our resources. And the period of recovery from the injuries which a timber famine would entail would be measured by the slow growth of the trees themselves.
Page 46 - There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon; and though, within that brief space of time which we call "the historical period...