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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry161910amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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Larch Timber on the Fdge of a Clearing Plenty of constitutional authority was found for the Louisiana purchase and for the Gadsden purchase. Nohody cjuestions the constitutional right of the United States to buy land for fortifica- tions, for custom houses, for post- ofifices, or for navy yards. Nobody questions the constitutional- ity of national enterprises, even of a national loan of millions of dollars for the promotion of inland waterways for the middle West, or for national irri- gation enterprises for the fa West. 70 Nobody questions the constitutional- ity of spending the national revenues for the maintenance of forest reserves in the West, in the benefit of which the East does not participate. If it is con- stitutional to maintain forest reserves for the Pacific slope, it is hard to see by what process of reasoning it becomes unconstitutional to acquire forest re- serves for the Atlantic slope. Finally, driven from these two un- tenable positions, the opponents of Ap- palachian forest reserves have at last taken up a third argument:

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