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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 17 forests are allowed to destroy them. It the Uintah Indian Reservat to is over purchased by the convernment
all the northern mountainous portion embraeing the southern slopes of the western end of the illegible Range should be included
in this forest Reserve. The total area of these thirteen proposed Forest Reserves, which are plotted on the secompanying
maps, is 21,379,840 acres. The Commission fully recognizes the fact that the Forest Reserves established and proposes cannot
be maintained unless a plan can be adapted under which their boundaries can be modified so as to take from them air lands
better suited for agriculture than for the production of forests, and under which their timber can be made available for domestic
and mined within their boundaries. The commission is now engaged in perfecting a scheme of forest management which it believes
will more the administration of the Reserves possible and which in due time will be submitted to you. It believes that the
solution of this difficult problem will, however, be made easier if the reserved areas are now increased, as the greater the
number of people interested in drawing supplies from the reserved territory or in mining in them, the greater will be the
pressure on Congress to illegible laws permitting their proper administration. For this reason it is the unanimous opinion
of the Commission that the establishment, by prociamation, of ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 18 the Reserves described above is now
a matter of the almost importance to the development and welfare of whole country. Very respectfully, illegible 02231