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anywhere. Germany and many of the countries of the old worhl have already 

 demonstrated what can be done. Are we to be less thrifty and farsighted? 

 Americans do things, when they are once aroused, and it is believed that 

 reforestation and the adopting of modern forestry management must be 

 given its due consideration in this State from now on. 



The writer has been delighted in following the interest that has been 

 aroused and the great tendency for all our people to not only welcome and 

 appreciate the new idea of "Conservation," but to even credit the term or 

 phrase, as covering every phase of new endeavor. 



It is not my purpose to lessen the glory one whit, or bedim a single gem 

 in the crown of the national phrase "Conservation of Natural Resources," 

 nor could I were it to be tried, for the heralded motto has already stamped 

 itself firmly upon the nation. 



As time goes on, however, it will be found that our popular phrase will 

 not carry with it the whole panacea of overcoming our wasteful and depleting 

 conditions, and that new and equally applicable terms though perhaps never so 

 popular, will come to express more aptly our real needs. 



To my mind the phrase "Restoration of Natural Resources" vies with that 

 of "Conservation of Natural Resources" and expresses a force to be aroused 

 in the nation for good that in man}^ ways surpasses the present popular one. 



We have our forest reserves and minerals that are left, and now to con- 

 serve them economically is a worthy undertaking, but in the older sections 

 of the nation to conserve what we have in depleted and worn out lands and 

 forests is to pick the bones of the withered and shrunken carcass. 



Let conservation apply where it may, but the force that is needed in 

 Massachusetts and all of New England, yea, the South, extending even well 

 into the middle of the nation, following the great depleting agricultural cereal 

 and cotton crops on the one hand, and the lumberman's axe and forest fires 

 on the other, is greater than this term can begin to express. 



The term "Restoration of Natural Resources," I claim, meets our present 

 needs far better and breathes greater hope and definite accomplishments for 

 our children's children in the future. 



GROWING AS WELL AS HARVESTING 



Forestry, although it is an agricultural crop and must have greater 

 consideration in the future, has not received the attention it deserved until 

 practically the present time. Forest products have been relatively abundant 

 and cheap in nearly all sections of the nation. Suddenly our needs began to 

 outstrip the supply and then with advancing prices lumbermen and the public 

 generally have gradually awakened to the necessity of providing for our 

 present and future needs. We find that it is not only a question of harvesting 

 the crop from now on, but one of growing it. There has been little demand 

 for educated foresters in the past as the undertakings were mainly those 

 of economic methods of lumbering. 



Saw logs in the early days were 10 inches in diameter or more, while 

 todav with us in New England lumbermen consider the 5 inch saw log of 



