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1. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, Theme XIX, Conservation of Natural Resources, 1963, pp. 2-19.
2. Ibid., pp. 22-23, and Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor, “Oh, Ranger!”: A Book About the National Parks (Palo Alto, 1928), p. 121.
3. Theme XIX, Conservation of Natural Resources, pp. 29, 35-37.
4. Ibid., pp. 9, 32-34.
5. Alfred Runte, National Parks: The American Experience (Lincoln, 1979), p. 65.
6. Richard B. Morris, ed., Encyclopedia of American History: Bicentennial Edition (New York, 1976), p. 637, and Theme XIX, Conservation of Natural Resources, pp. 73-74.
7. Cited in Charles R. Van Hise and Loomis Havemeyer, eds., Conservation of Our Natural Resources (New York, 1933), p. 242, and Benjamin H. Hibbard, A History of Public Land Policies (New York, 1924), p. 530.
8. Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Cambridge, 1959), p. 36.
9. “Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States, Vol. I, 1874-1891, Chapter 559, in Steel Scrapbooks, Forest Reserves, No. 24, Vol. I, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park. For further data on the history and development of forest reserves in the northwestern United States see E.H. MacDaniels, “Twenty-Five National Forests o North Pacific Region,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, XLII (September, 1941), 247-55.
10. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1895, I, CIV-CV, and American Forestry Association, “The Forest Reservation Policy,” ca. 1897, in Steel Scrapbooks, Forest Reserves, No. 25, Vol. 2, Museum Collection, Crater Lake National Park.
11. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1902, I, 19-20.
12. Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground (New York, 1947), p. 85.
13. Hibbard, History of Public Land Policies, p. 532.
14. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1897, I, 83-84.
15. Theme XIX, Conservation of Natural Resources, p. 76.
16. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1892, I, V.
17. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1893, I, LX-LXI.
18. Savery to Secretary of the Interior, July 23, 1892, RG 49, Division “R,” National Forests, Willamette, Part 4.
19. Laws of Oregon, 1893, p. 887.
20. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1894, I, XLII.
21. Ibid., I, 95. A copy of the May 12, 1894, public notice (actually dated April 14) may be seen in Appendix B.
22. Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1896, I, XII-XIII.
23. John Muir, “The National Parks and Forest Reservations,” Harper’s Weekly, XLI (June 5, 1897), 566.
24. U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, Forest Policy For the Forested Lands of the United States, 55th Cong., 1st Sess., 1897, S. Doc. 105, pp. 20-23, 33-34. Also see “A Forest Policy in Suspense,” Atlantic Monthly, LXXX (August, 1897), 268-71, for data on this subject.
25. “An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight, and for other purposes,” in Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1897, I, CXIV-CXVII.
