Show PROGRESS OF FORESTRY last year say a large gain in the popular acceptance and application of the principles which govern the proper care and use of woodlands many landowners and great lumber concerns now realize that conservative management means actual gains to them in dollars and cents and western stockmen stoc kmen and miners no longer doubt that regulations of grazing and cutting timber oi the reserves is necessary for the perpetuation of their industries dus tries forest work carried on by the federal government in conjunction with the state was rich in results state forest departments were created better forest laws enacted and many object lessons given of the opportunities to maintain and extend the forests within the various common the bureau of forestry surpassed any pre volus year in the variety and extent of its investigations and experiments in the knowledge gained of actual conditions and needs in the regions of the west and in the preparation and installations of working plans upon forest lands the remarkable advance of forestry during recent years was fittingly marked by a forest congress extending through four days of the first week in january 1905 this meeting far exceeded in size and importance any similar gathering that has been held in america the lumbering mining grazing and woodworking tho railroads and the interests of irrigation in the west acra represented by men of the highest professional and business standing dmd of national reputation in conferees with these men were the official representatives of many states and of the canadian and philippine forest services careful consideration of the needs of the industries which use the products of the forest reserves and of the requirements necessary 0 o preserve tho public forests permanently Is leading to a national policy concerning the federal forest reserves the prime purpose in establishing the reserves Is to prevent fires wasteful lumbering and overgrazing ana at tho sams time to secure the fullest possible use of productive capacity often their most important service is to guard the forested mountains and hill sides from which the streams flow for water is the first need of the arid states but the interests of the miner who can not onerato without heavy supplies of timber and of the stock mea dependent upon the public range must also be recognized in 1901 seven new forest reserves were created baker city n oregon cave ellla and slim buttes in south dakota grantsville Grants ville and salt lake in utah and warner mountains nad modoc in california additions were mado to the floh lake utah the south platte colorado and the big horn wyoming reserves several areas having a total 0 acre which examination had shown to be better suited or agriculture than for forestry were restored to the public domain BO that the net increase in the area of iho reserves was but acres |