Author: United States Congress

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780428637934

Excerpt from Reform of the Land Laws; Conservation of National Resources: Extracts From Recommendations of the President, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Etc The boundaries of the national forest reserves unavoidably include certain valuable timber lands not owned by the Government. Im portant among them are the land grants of various railroads. For more than two years negotiations with the land-grant railroads have been in progress looking toward an arrangement by_ which the forest on railroad lands within national forest reserves may be preserved by the removal of the present crop of timber under rules prescribed by the Forest Service, and its perpetuation may be assured by the trans fer of the land to the Government without cost. The advantage of web an arrangement to the Government lies in the acquisition of lands whose protection is necessary to the general welfare. The advantage to the railroads is found in the proposal to allow them to. Consolidate their holdings of timber within forest reserves by ex? Change after deeding their lands to the Government and thus to out within a limited time solid bodies of timber instead of alternate eetions, although the amount of timber in each case would be the same. It is possible that legislation will be required to authorize this or a similar arrangement with the railroads and other owners. If so. I recommend that it be enacted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.