Our National Forests

About this eBook

Author

Boerker, Richard H. D. (Richard Hans Douai), 1887-1966

Title

Our national forests : a short popular account of the work of the United States Forest service on the national forests

Credits

Produced by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SD: Agriculture: Forestry

Subject

United States. Forest Service

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42391

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42391

Release Date

March 23, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.OUR NATIONAL FORESTS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.INTRODUCTION — FORESTRY AS A NATIONAL PROBLEM — THE EXTENT AND CHARACTER OF OUR NATIONAL FORESTS — WHY THE NATIONAL FORESTS WERE CREATED — HOW THE NATIONAL FOREST POLICY HAS BENEFITED THE PEOPLE
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I THE CREATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS — ECONOMIC CONDITIONS WHICH LED TO FOREST CONSERVATION — THE FIRST STEPS IN FEDERAL FOREST CONSERVATION. — THE FIRST FOREST RESERVES ESTABLISHED MARCH 30, 1891 — AN ANOMALOUS CONDITION—FOREST RESERVES WITHOUT FOREST ADMINISTRATION — THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE RESERVES UNDER THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE — THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE FORESTRY WORK IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN 1905 — THE PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF THE FOREST SERVICE
7. 7.CHAPTER II THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS — PERSONNEL — HOW THE FOREST SERVICE APPROPRIATION IS ALLOTTED TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS — THE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR THE NATIONAL FORESTS — NATIONAL FOREST IMPROVEMENTS — THE CLASSIFICATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS — HOW YOUNG FORESTS ARE PLANTED TO REPLACE THOSE DESTROYED BY FIRE — THE ORGANIZATION AND SCOPE OF FOREST EXPERIMENTS AND INVESTIGATIONS
8. 8.CHAPTER III THE PROTECTION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS — PROTECTION FROM FIRE — PROTECTION AGAINST TRESPASS, FOREST INSECTS, EROSION AND OTHER AGENCIES
9. 9.CHAPTER IV THE SALE AND RENTAL OF NATIONAL FOREST RESOURCES — THE SALE AND DISPOSAL OF NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER — THE DISPOSAL OF TIMBER TO HOMESTEAD SETTLERS AND UNDER FREE USE — TIMBER SETTLEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE USE — THE RENTAL OF NATIONAL FOREST RANGE LANDS — SPECIAL USES — CLAIMS AND SETTLEMENT — ADMINISTRATIVE USE OF NATIONAL FOREST LANDS — WATER POWER, TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND POWER TRANSMISSION LINES
10. 10.APPENDIX

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