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Teddy Roosevelt: “About 20 per cent of our forested territory is now reserved in National forests; but these do not include the most…”

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About 20 per cent of our forested territory is now reserved in National forests; but these do not include the most valuable timber lauds, and in any event the proportion is too small to expect that the reserves can accomplish more than a mitigation of the trouble which is ahead for the nation.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt critiques the insufficient reservation of valuable timber lands in national forests.

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