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Teddy Roosevelt: “The public lands in the State of South Dakota, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber…”

On the recordMarch 4, 1904
The public lands in the State of South Dakota, within the limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 518—Establishing the Slim Buttes Forest Reserve

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