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Show FOREST NOTES About two million acres of national na-tional forest lands grazing by domestic domes-tic stock la either entirely prohibited prohibit-ed or is greatly restricted to provide range for elk. It is estimated that in 1915 about 4 0,000 forest fires occurred in the United States, which burned over about 5,900,000 acres and caused a damage of approximately $7,000,-000. $7,000,-000. Revised estimates place the quantity quan-tity of merchantable timber in the United States at approximately 2,-767 2,-767 billion board feet. Of this amount 1,464 billion board feet or 53 per cent of the total, is in California, Califor-nia, Washington, Ogeron, Idaho and Montana. During the past fiscal year there were constructed on the National Forests 227 miles of new road, 1,-97 1,-97 5 miles of trails, 2,124 miles of telephone lines, 89 miles of fire lines, 81 lookout structures, 4 0 bridges, 222 miles of fence, 545 dwellings, barns and other structures, struc-tures, 17 corrals and 202 water improvements. im-provements. :' Since the passage in 1912 of the act providing funds for land classification, classi-fication, and as a direct result of the classification work, a total of 13, 477,781 acres has been eliminated from the National Forests. This includes in-cludes en elimination of approximately approxi-mately 5,800,000 acres of land from the Chugach National Forest in Alaska, which embraced lands of low value for any purpose other than mining. |
