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Show FOREST POLICY UPHELD. Establishment of Reserves is Constitutional, Consti-tutional, According to Decision of Supreme Court. Washington. The legal bnttlo against the forest reserves of tho west in particular and federal conservation of natural resources in general was lost on Monday in the supreme court of the United States. That tribunal not only upheld the constitutionality of the establishment of tho reserves for any national and public purpose, but It settled onca for all that the federal government, and not tho states, may say how the reserves re-serves shall be used. Tho Immediate results of the decision deci-sion are that Fred Light, a Colorado cattleman, will remain enjoined from allowing' bis cattle to graze on tho Holy Cross forest reservation in Cob-rado, Cob-rado, and that - lerre Grimaud, K. I. Garajous and Antonio Inda, California Califor-nia sheepmen, must answer to the indictment in-dictment charging them with grazing sheep upon the Sierra forest reserve without a permit. |