Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First[-fourth] Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Agriculture |
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acres amount appropriation Association ASWELL authority AYRES BABBITT believe benefit CAMPBELL Capper bill cent CHAIRMAN CLARKE committee Congress cooperation cost course crop cut-over lands DANAHER deal dollars estimate expense EYCK Federal Government feet fire protection forest fires forest lands forest products forest reserves Forest Service forestry GASKILL gentlemen GERNERD give going GREELEY growing timber growth HALL hardwood Idaho idea individual industry interest JACOWAY JONES KELLOGG KINCHELOE KIRBY legislation legislature LONG lumber lumbermen matter MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan ment national forests navigable streams necessary ownership Pennsylvania PINCHOT pine planting practical present private owners problem proposition pulp purchase purpose question reason reforestation regrowth regulations requirements Secretary of Agriculture SHERMAN SISSON Snell bill statement stumpage survey taxes TAYLOR TEN EYCK thing thousand timberlands TINCHER tion to-day TOUMEY United utilization watersheds Wisconsin wood
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Page 8 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 8 - ... shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct...
Page 227 - In no case other than for preliminary investigations shall the amount expended by the Federal Government in any State during any fiscal year, under this section, exceed the amount expended by the State for the same purpose during the same fiscal year...
Page 32 - In the cooperation extended to the several States due consideration shall be given to the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, but such cooperation may, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be extended to any timbered or forest producing lands or watersheds from which water is secured for domestic use or irrigation within the cooperating states.
Page 26 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in cooperation with appropriate officials of the various States or other suitable agencies, to recommend for each forest region of the United States such systems of forest fire prevention and suppression as will adequately protect the timbered and cut-over lands therein with a view to the protection of forest and water resources and the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor.
Page 9 - ... situated the lands to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such exchange. Timber given in such exchanges shall be cut and removed under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under the direction and supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall, upon acceptance of title, become parts of the...
Page 61 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and each fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the fiscal year ending June...
Page 224 - There is a good deal of difference of opinion as to the best implement with which to cut snow blocks.
Page 7 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 90 - The CHAIRMAN. Are there any other questions? If not, we are very much obliged to you, Mr.