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Show LANDS WILL BE AGAIN RESTORED As a direct result of the national forest boundaries examination ear-lied ear-lied on by forest officers last summer .ind fall on the Initiation of Secretary Wilson and under his direction, a Dumber of large tracts of land in different dif-ferent parts of the West, but principally princi-pally in Idaho, will be restored to tho public domain. The plan under which this Is to be arranged was foi inula ted by Secretary Wilson and Secretary Palllngcr Jointly aud submitted to tbe president iu a letter setting forth its cu vantages, under date of February 7. In this plan It is suggested that all lands which seem to bear Indlcalloa of being mor? profitable as ranches or farms than as a national forest reserve re-serve should bo thrown open, while all lands covered with brush and timber which protect and preserve streams being used on adjacent farms for Irrigation Ir-rigation should be sustained in the uutlonal forestry ic9ero. While the changes called lor are relatively unimportant un-important they open to settlement a large acreage of land, totaling approximately approx-imately 4.000.000 acres of national forest for-est reserve, which ls slightly over 2 per cent of the total national forest area, tl Is said that three-tenths of the land in he reserve has yet to be mapped. According to Information receive! from the forestry department, 470.000 acres of land will be thrown open in Idaho, of which about 34 per cent Is sufficiently fertile to allow of dry farming or irrigation. The greater part of the land thrown open, however, how-ever, Is valuable only as grazing land. |