mar 4, 1907 - Signs the Department of Agriculture appropriations bill (34 Stat 1271) (which included the Forest Service) that included this language: “hereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created within the limits of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming, except by Act of Congress.” That language motivated the block of forest reserve proclamations on 03/02
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