Word: timberland
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Wilbur announced that the U. S. had just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...
Since the days of President Roosevelt, when Mr. Pinchot was Secretary of the Interior, the policy of the Federal government in regard to our natural resources has been one of conservation; particularly in so far as our timberland is concerned. Mr. Roosevelt perceived, with his accustomed far-sightedness, that the day was coming when it would be no longer possible to misuse our natural products with the carelessness and wastefulness which then held sway. The bills put through under his administration have been practically the only check on the destruction of our forests...
...China obtains a share in the peace conference later on, she may very likely hope to obtain not alone the benefits above indicated, but also the clean retrocession of the Kiao Chow Bay territory and its timberland, formerly seized by Germany and at present held by Japan...