The Reforestation Movement in China 



i.'.\ \\ . F. SniiRi-icsiiii 

 Director of forcstr\, Philippine Islands 



CI UNA has long been held up as the horrible 

 example of forest neglect. Her treeless hillsides 

 lia\e pro\-ed the text for many a lecture, and her 

 floods have served to illustrate many a warning. The 

 casual traveler, by river boat or railroad, in describing 

 his impressions, has seldom failed to refer to the treeless- 

 ness of the areas through which his route lay ; and the 

 technical forester and the conservation propagandist have 

 joined the tourist in deprecating the negligence in the 

 past which has deprived the present-day Chinese of one 

 of the most essential elements of industrial civilization. 



In most cases such accounts have not been e.xaggerations, 

 for although there are said still to be found large areas 

 of forest in more or less good condition, particularly in 

 Manchuria, it is undoubtedly true that throughout most 

 portions of the country the treeless mountains rise naked 

 from the treeless plains. 



That such a situation as this has had and continues to 

 have a disastrous effect upon the industrial productive- 

 ness of the country, as well as upon the comfort and 

 well-being of its inhaljitants cannot be doubted. Mr. 

 Giftord Pinchot writes that — 



NOTABLES AT TREE PLAxXTIXG OX PURPLE MOUNTAIN, NEAR NANKING, CHINA 



A gathering to attend the ceremonial tree planting to mark the inauguration of the Forest School in the University of Nanking, March 15, 191.o. 

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of the University of Nanking. In the midst of the crowd are Mr. Ngan Han, in charge of the Forest Office at Peking, and Mr. P. C. King, 

 Forester of the Province of Anhwei. 



ng to attend the ceremonial tree planting to mark tne inauguration oi tne forest scnooi in tne Lniversiiy or .^anKlng, iviarcn lo, lyi.-j. 



principal figures shown are (1) His Excellencv, Chang Chien, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, (2) United States Consul Wil- 



of Nanking, (3) The Daodai, or Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Kiangsu, (4) Mr. Wang, the Mayor and Chief Magistrate of 



ing, (5) Mr. Chiu Chi Heng, the President of the Nanking Branch of the Cliinese Colonization Association, (6) President A. J. Bowen 



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