Show ClASSIfiCATION OF lAND Plans Agreed Upon by Departments of Interior and Agriculture and Approved by President Washington Feb S SA A plan mutually arranged by the interior and agricultural departments which has been submitted to the President for approval outlines the general policy to lie he followed by the forest service and the thee general land office in de do determining determining lands to be classed clas d within the national forests Timbered lands those valuable as a protective forest in regard to irrigation or the water supply of communities and small bodies of lands scattered through the forests which It is Impracticable to eliminate are the principal areas to be confined within the forest reserves The policy polley evolved at a joint conference of officials of the two departments has been een taken under advisement by b the President It aims to create harmonious action between the offices concerned in inthe Inthe inthe the administration of oC the public domain As outlined In Ina a joint letter to the Fresh President President dent by Secretaries Wilson Vilson and Ballinger the he plan contemplates the following lands to be contained within the national for forests forts eats ests ts Those containing brush or underbrush which protects stream flow or checks ero erosion erosion sion on the watershed of any stream im important Important imPortant to irrigation or to the water sup supply supply supply ply of any an community and open lands on which trees may be grown unless their permanent value under cultivation is greater than their value ns as a protective forest Lands containing timber or under undergrowth undergrowth undergrowth growth cut over lands and areas densely densel stocked with young trees which are more valuable for tor the production of trees than agricultural crops Areas containing no timber or under undergrowth undergrowth growth which are located above aboe the tim ber line within the forests small bodies of lands scattered through the forests making elimination impracticable and limited areas which are necessarily in included included eluded in the reserves for a proper boundary |