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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photo, by Dr. J. J. Kirkleride. 



Moose Hunters Camp, 

 this is on ellis brook, maine. and in a country famous as moose hunting ground. 



made so by a proclamation of Ex- 

 President Roosevelt. To assure the 

 protection of this great National wonder 

 it should be made into a National Park, 

 l^oth the Canyon and a wide strip of 

 forests on either side. May we have 

 the cooperation of the American For- 

 estry Association in this great and 

 necessary work? 



"^And now to conclude, we believe 

 in so-called scientific forestry and in 

 commercial forests. We must have 

 great areas of them. 



But we want also National and State 

 ]3arks where the forests can remain 

 untouched, except for fire protection, 

 where we can preserve for all time bits 

 of wilderness, where the game and 

 forests may exist under natural condi- 

 tions. Here we and those that will 

 come after us may get an idea of what 

 our continent was like before it was 

 civilized, and here perhaps we may help 

 to develop in the coming generations 

 some of those sturd}' qualities our 

 forefathers had. 



* From an address at the 34th Annua' Meeting of the American Forestry Association, New 

 York City, January 11, 1915. 



