Show agricultural land handmore land Lan dmore more valuable for agriculture than for timber growing is excluded from the national forests so far as is possible when the boundaries are drawn small tracts of land which can not be thus excluded are opened to settlement under the forest homestead act of june 11 1906 taken as a whole hole however t the he proportion of land within the fore forests s ts more valuable for agrical ture lure than for growing timber or other purposes is ia trifling the greater part of the really valuable agricultural land within the forests haa already been taken up and most of what there is left has a severe climate and lies at high altitudes 0 often remote from roads schools villages and markets Ney erthe less the forest service wants settlers on the national forests t the he more the better batter because they it help lp wals to fight fire and in many other was assist t the forest officers |