Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — United States Forest Reservations. [ARTICLE]

United States Forest Reservations.

The thirty , forest reservations of* the United States embrace an tijcaa«f 40,000,000 acres, in thirteen States 'anrf? Seven are in the State of California, the largest of which, the I Sierra forest reserve, includes 4,006** 000 acres. Within the past thirtyrflve years It is estimated that 11,000,000,000 feet, board measure, of timber on publie land baa been destroyed by forest I Area, « \