Identifier: schoolbookoffore00pack (find matches)
Title: The school book of forestry
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Pack, Charles Lathrop, 1857-1937
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D.C., The American Tree Association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ment of informa-tion. It distributed technical facts and figuresabout the management of private woodlands andcollected data concerning our forest resources.It did not manage any of the Government timber-lands because there were no forest reserves atthat time. It was not until 1891 that the firstforest reserve, the Yellowstone Park TimberlandReserve, was created by special proclamation ofPresident Harrison. Later it became part ofthe National Park reserves. Although the Divi-sion of Forestry had no special powers to overseeand direct the management of the forest reserves,during the next six years a total of 40,000,000acres of valuable timberland were so designatedand set aside. At the request of the Secretary ofthe Interior, the National Academy of Sciencestherefore worked out a basis for laws governingnational forests. Congress enacted this law in1897. Thereafter the Department of the Inte-rior had active charge of the timberlands. Atthat time little was known scientifically about the
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THE GROWTH OF THE FORESTRY IDEA 77 American forests. There were no schools of for-estry in this country. During the period 1898-1903, several such schools were established. President McRinley, during his term of office,increased the number of forest reserves from28 to over 40, covering a total area of 30,000,000acres. President Roosevelt added many millions of acres to the forest reserves, bringing the nettotal to more than 150,000,000 acres, including159 different forests. In 1905, the administra-tion of the forest reserves was transferred fromthe Department of the Interior to the Departmentof Agriculture, and their name changed to Na-tional Forests. No great additions to the govern-ment timberlands have been made since that time.Small, valuable areas have been added. Otherundesirable tracts have been cut off from theoriginal reserves. The growth of the Division of Forestry, nowthe United States Forest Service, has been veryremarkable since 1898, when it consisted of onlya few scienti

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