national forests perma permanence ne nce As aa a result of land and classification at a ii n work more than eight million acres cres were eliminated fr from the national forests in the last fiscal year and in additional over 1100 individual tracts within the forests were ere made available avail violent aole for homestead honnen cd etry ertry ac cording to the annual report of henry S G graves chief of the tha forest 0 service which emphasizes emphasize the osee necessarily rily permanent ch character t of the national forests and town out the importance of definitely determining ter mining the tha status of the land which the forests contain the national forests says mr graves craves are yarning gaining in i through the land classification work rk it t la is important for the general wo pubic lie to know what lands are to be reamed amed permanently by the government and what bat lands will be 4 available 1 for agricultural settlement the fhe whole forest enterprise 1 is has baa ed un on the assumption of permanence all the work is conducted with a view to constructive development of the property and its ita constantly increasing usefulness every timber sale is made with a view to future consequence the work of protection from fire is not only to prevent the destruction of standing timber but to save young growth and encourage the natural reproduction on lands w which aich have been injured by previous abuse millions of trees are established each year which will not come to maturity for a very long time A regulated system of grazing looks to the ding of the forest range as well as to its present use and the investment of public funds foods in extensive improvements is predicated td on the permanence of the government enterprise