Show REFUGEES FROM civilization WILL FIND ISLAND SHORTAGE modern modem danl dan1 dana boones who h hope op eto to escape civilization by retreating tre it ing to a log cabin on a secluded island of public domain land will be disappointed to learn that few such islands are still available the bureau of land management of the department of t the h e interior stated today in answer to hundreds of recent inquiries iqquwes from island seekers the bureau states 1 BIM maintains no list ust of islands avail able tor for lease and 2 only a feaslands feAs few islands lands remain in the public domain which may conceivably be classified for lease under the small tract act the vast majority of federally owned islands passed into state or private ownership dur ing the last great century of land disposal stated BIM director marion clawson the islands which remain he added are often masses of rock inaccessible unsurveyed not classified for disposal or otherwise unavailable to seekers of vacation spots recent items in the news pertaining to the aVal availability lability of 1 islands from the bureau of land management have apparently resulted from erroneous interpretation of allotments of public land on the alabama gulf coast and in the florida keys said director clawson the bureau is endeavoring to make small tracts of public land available for leasing and possible purchase by citizens desiring residential or recreational dional tional sites but the land und avail able ablo seldom if ever includes small sman aman islands according to other BIM officials fici als islands have always been popular and were taken up in large number by early homesteaders and by owners of scrip scrip was a right to make a selection of a specified number of acres of available public lands civil war veterans tor for example frequently made use lot of scrip to obtain islands fox for their own us or lor for speculation islands were sometimes included in grants of land to the state states and to railroads or were includ include ed in national forest or federal reservations many Is lands were withdrawn from al forms of public acquisition foi for use as altea sites for lighthouses or 01 other stations the first trees as we them thern with more or less soll solid wood and needlelike needle like leaves ap peared feared in the permian age 23 mf aulon mulon won years ago |