A Forestry Policy

In the selection of these lands for forest reserves, President Cleveland was guided by the recommendations of a committee appointed for the purpose by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the secretary of the interior. This committee has recently made a detailed report, which the President has transmitted to congress, looking to the adoption of a definite forestry policy. The committee reccmmends the establishment of a permanent bureau of public forests, and the appointment of a board to determine what lands shall be set apart as forest reservations. It suggests that all public lands which are more valuatle for timber than for agriculture or mining should be withdrawn frora sais and settlement; and it recommends that regular troops be detailed to protect the public forests until a permaa-sat t-Miéuui [e pstablished.