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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

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U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 33, Part 1, Chap. 288, p. 628. "An Act Providing for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture." H.R. 8460, Public Resolution No. 34

U.S. Congress. 58th. 3rd Session.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States. District of Columbia. Washington. Government Printing Office 1905 02 01

SUMMARY
Transfers administration of Federal forest reserves from the Department of Interior to the Department of Agriculture, and provides that funds from the sale of products or the use of land in the reserves shall be used for managing and developing the forest reserve system.

NOTES
Known as the Transfer Act. Placed the forest reserves under the jurisdiction of Gifford Pinchot's bureau, in accordance with the recommendations of the American Forest Congress of 1905; the change permitted Pinchot to implement his ambitious program of scientific forest management.

Published 1905.

SUBJECTS
Law--United States
Forest conservation

MEDIUM
0001

CALL NUMBER
KF 50 .U5

PART OF
United States Statutes at Large

DIGITAL ID
amrvl vl015

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