Map showing location and extent of the forest reserves and national parks in western United States, (1899)

Map showing location and extent of the forest reserves and national parks in western United States, (1899)

National parks and reserves -- West (U.S.) -- Maps.<br>Forest reserves -- West (U.S.) -- Maps.<br>Forests and forestry -- Washington (State) -- Maps

1 map : col. ; 43 x 35 cm.<br>Relief shown by contours. <br> "Twentieth Annual Report, part V, pl. I." <br> "Corrected to date of June 30, 1899."<br> Originally folded to 26 x 18 cm.<br> In 1891, the Forest Reserve Act was passed in Congress. It read, in part, "The President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof." By the time he left office, President Benjamin Harrison had set aside 14 million acres of land under this act. <br>The initial effect of this was to allow the government to remove large tracts of forest from public access entirely, but in 1897 an act was passed that allowed the government to manage these lands, and so at government discretion they were made available for logging, grazing, and other uses. The act was initially used to set aside land protecting watersheds, to preserve 'recreational' forests, and to provide for a long-term renewable timber resource.

Geological Survey (U.S.) Dept.

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[New York] : Julius Bien & Co

1899

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Is part of Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior ; 20, pt. 5.

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WSU 283<br>G4051.K2 1899 .G46x

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