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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



EDITORS FOR NATIONAL FOREST POLICY 



fires. The foresters have hit upon an excel- 

 lent idea: to plant trees as inemorials of dis- 

 tinguished men has an appeal which is of 

 genuine service to all the people as well as 

 carrying a romantic tradition of enduring 

 strength in the national character. Mr. 

 Charles L. Pack, the president of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, urges the plant- 

 ing of trees in all parts of the country as 

 memorials to Theodore 

 Roosevelt at this time of 

 general commemoration of 

 his birthday ; recalling 

 Roosevelt's strong interest 

 in the subject, Mr. Pack 

 says : "I do not believe the 

 human mind can devise a 

 more suitable metnorial to 

 Theodore Roosevelt than a 

 movement which will look 

 to preserving the forests of 

 the country." 



The foresters point out 

 that the forests are like a 

 bank account ; they cannot 

 be continually drawn upon 

 without making some de- 

 posits. A national forest 

 policy is a need which can- 

 not be gainsaid; it is not a 

 project for the benefit of 

 the lumberman or the paper- 

 maker or the wook-worker 

 alone; it is in the interest 

 of the whole population. — 

 Neii' York Evening Sun. 



California are not ours alone; they belong 

 to the nation. — San Francisco Call. 



The coal miners' strike has brought 

 vividly to the public comprehension how 

 dependent the country is on the coal supply. 

 Wood is the only practical substitute for 

 coal, and wood can be produced in un- 

 limited quantites. Forests have been for 



pulp out of which print paper is made is 

 consuming the growth of thousands of 

 acres of forests annually. 



Without regard to fuel, a wood famine 

 would be almost as great a calamity as a 

 coal famine, and it should be provided 

 against. — Nashville Banner. 



EVEN A COAL STRIKE MAY HAVE SOME 



BENEFICIAL EFFECT IF IT LASTS 



LONG ENOUGH 



The American Forestry- 

 Association points out that 

 the demands of France and 

 Belgium may double the 

 call for American lumber. 

 Three and a half billion 

 board feet of logs and lum- 

 ber were e.vported annually 

 before the war; seven bil- 

 lion may be needed now. In 

 1918 the fire loss was $28,- 

 500,000, not much if one is 

 thinking in billions, but a 

 good deal from any other 

 point of view. The acreage 

 figures are more impres- 

 sive : Eight billion four 

 hundred million acres were 

 burned over. The layman can do little to 

 increase the stock of trees. But he can 

 do a good deal, especially at this time of 

 year, to save what we have. He can be 

 careful with his camp fires, whether he 

 thinks the ranger will catch him or not, 

 can watch where his matches and cigarette 

 stubs go, and can teach the gospel of fire 

 caution to other people. The forests of 



Great Britain has determined to spend 

 Si7,ooo,ooo in a ten-year 

 campaign to replant as for- 

 est areas 250,000 acres of 

 land to replace timber used 

 during the war in France. 

 The United States could 

 do no better than to follow 

 the example of Great 

 Britain and determine at 

 once upon a broad plan 

 for reforestation. Thus far 

 the lumbering industry in 

 this country has been one 

 big problem in subtraction. 

 If the nation does not begin 

 to add and multiply before 

 long, the only possible an- 

 swer will be zero. — Athens, 

 Ohio, Messenger. 



It is gratifying to note 

 that there is considerable 

 interest in tree planting in 

 Peoria at this time. No 

 little of this interest is due 

 to the campaign of the 

 American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation which is attempting 

 to get people to "plant a 

 tree in America for every 

 tree destroyed during the 

 war." The forestry men 

 are specially alert in their 

 efforts to get trees planted 

 along roads and public 

 driveways — thus putting to 

 practical use much land 

 that has been bearing little 

 except weeds in the decades 

 gone by. — Peoria, Illinois 

 Journal. 



Copyrighted 1919 by the New York Tribune, Inc. 



This cartoon by Darling points forcibly to the value of a woodlot 

 regardless of whether we have coal strikes or not. 



centuries systematically conserved in Eu- 

 rope, and we must emulate and improve 

 on the European example. And it is not 

 because alone of the possibility of an ex- 

 hausted coal supply that a production of 

 wood is needed. There is an insatiate and 

 increasing demand for lumber that can't 

 be met after awhile if the forests are not 

 replenished, and the demand for wood 



With thousands more in- 

 terested in trees, thousands 

 more will be interested in 

 the ways and wherefors of 

 forest policy. — Minneapolis 



a national 



AVifj. 



The president of the .American Forestry 

 Association of Washington has issued a 

 call to the people to beautify their high- 

 ways as memorials to the men who fought 

 for world freedom. Good roads and tree 

 planting go hand in hand. — Elkins, West 

 J'irginia, Inter-Mounlain. 



