FORESTRY WORKERS OF LOUISIANA 



Hon, Newton Grain Blanchard, of Shreveport, Governor of Louisiana, 1904'1908, an Earnest and Consistent 



Advocate of Forestry and Conservation of All Natural Resources 



!}■ liglit weight and ease of working, 

 as to tit them espeeially for the use in 

 construction which requires tlie largest 

 amount of work. They grow ]irinci- 

 pally under conditions that make their 

 exploitation easy and i)rofitable. They 

 are easily reproduced and are moder- 

 ately quick growers, and when one pine 

 is cut another should he planted in its 

 place, especially short-leaf and loblolly. 

 and as they grow ou the \'er_\' jxtorest 

 kdnd of land and are of the greatest 

 value from the stand])oinl of nationnl 

 economy, their reestahlishment should 

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be encouraged in our different states by 

 replanting flenuded ])ine lands. 



Our cypress, which grows principally 

 in the southern \rdrt of the state, and 

 in some of the low swamps of our north- 

 ern parishes, is of extremely slow 

 growth, but is the most lasting of all 

 wood, and mider water is practically in- 

 destructible, .'-^ome of the present-day 

 giants of our cy])re^s t'orests have ob- 

 tained the enormous size of forty feet 

 in circumference, ;md are over 3,000 

 3ears of age. This tree has always 

 taken a uni(|ue place among our eastern 



