Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — Our National Forests. [ARTICLE]

Our National Forests.

The recent proclamations setting aside the Ocala National Forest in North Dakota bring the number of states possessing such forests belonging to the United States up to 20, if Alaska be included. Of these forests, Arkansas has two, but all the others, except the new ones in Florida and North Dakota, are in the Rocky Mouik. tain or Pacific coast states. It is expected that the Ocala Forest area, which covers 201,450 acres, will become densely covered with the sand pine. No part of the area rises more than 150 feet above sea-level. The Dakota Forest is in the Bpd Lands region, and much is expected from its influence, North Dakota is the least forested state in the Union. The new forest covers 14,050 acres.