Pinchot sits on a throne looking down on a stockman, an irrigationist, a miner, a new settler, and a pioneer, who are bowing before him. Rangers are mounted on horseback behind him, whips raised. Above the scene is written, "Crimes by Regulations: 1. The owners of stock that strays upon forest reserves will be fined and imprisoned. 2. No stock can feed on the public range without paying a head tax. 3. Every person who cuts timber on Forest Reserves for any purpose whatever does so at his peril. 4. Settlers within the Forest Reserves are undesirable citizens. 5. Wild game is of more importance that prospectors or settlers.--Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forestor" [sic]
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