Show FOREST NOTES on about two million acres afna dional forest lands grazing by domestic stock is either entirety entirely prohibited or is greatly restricted to provide vide range ranee for elk it is estimated that in 1915 about 40 forest fires occurred in the united states which burned over about acres and ad caused a damage of apar approximately abely revised estimates place the amount of standing merchantable timber in the united states at approximately 2767 billion board feet of this a mount 1464 billon board feet or 53 per cent of the total is 13 in california washington oregon idaho and montana during the past fiscal year there were constructed on national forest est miles of new road 1975 miles of trail 2 miles of tele phone line 89 miles of fire line 81 booko lookout u t structures 40 bridges miles of fence dwellings barns and other structures structured turea 17 corr alsand water improvements since the passage in 1912 of the act providing funds for land classification fige fi tion and as an a direct result of the classification work an estimated total of acres has been eliminated from the national forests thia This includes an elimination of approximately acres of land from the churach national forest in alaska which embraced lands of low value for any purpose than mining |