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On the recordJune 4, 1905
It appears that the public good would be promoted by further releasing and excluding lands from the said forest reserve.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 568—Modifying the Boundaries of the Battlement Mesa Forest Reserve, Colorado

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