CONSERVATION OF OUR FORESTS 



549 



the fishing and shooting and are retar(Hiig all attempts at 

 restoration. P'rom both the ssthetic and practical stand- 

 points, all this should be remedied. It can be done, to a 

 certain extent, by rigid enforcement of proper laws and 

 the repeal of laws made for effect only, not to be enforced. 



If the State should establish several reservations, 

 which should include the head-waters of our rivers, and 

 re-establish and protect upon the hills the natural timber 

 growth, make some improvement in the course of the 

 streams, and protect these reservations absolutely from all 

 kinds of depredation and destruction, it would in time 

 restore all that Vermont once had, with all the additions 

 which time and experience have proved to be useful. 

 These reservations would be the nurseries of game and 

 fish for the lower streams and valleys. 



It would benefit the State both as a place for habita- 

 tion and resort. It would be a source of large profit to 

 the State from an actual return in money derived from 

 licenses for fishing, hunting and from sale of lumber, 

 while the indirect return would be almost beyond estimate. 

 \'ermont is well able to make the original investment of 

 capital which would bring ample returns in enjoyment 

 and pleasure and add so greatly to the prosperity of the 

 State. All men filling the high public offices like some 

 great reform or beneficial movement to mark their term. 

 Here is an opportunity for our next governor to hand his 

 name down to future generations. 



TO aid our industrial development, reservoirs could 

 be established at natural points, and in this way 

 preserve the lower river reaches from excessive 

 floods and establish that equable flow of water in the 

 streams which is so necessary to industrial development. 

 There are many details to be worked out by actual 

 experience. Only a general idea can be presented. There 

 are no impossibilities, while the probabilities, sesthetic. 



industrial and financial, are great. 



To make any such movement a success, no one in- 

 dividual, either by careless or intentional disregard of the 

 rights of others or of law, should be allowed to destroy, 

 by disregarding regulations and laws, that which was 

 being done for the benefit of all. There is too much in- 

 difference to, and toleration of, the selfishness of individ- 

 uals, which allows them by encroachments, small and 

 large, upon common rights, to make impossible the full 

 enjoyment by other individuals, or by the public as a 

 whole, of their rights. It is time we stopped talking 

 about that independence of the individual, which is in 

 eff'ect only surly self-indulgence and egotistical self- 

 assertion and a bad excuse for bad education and 

 bad breeding. 



Accessibility and easy access and intercommunication 

 are important factors in the development of the country 

 for any purpose. 



We should so foster our ways of communication lead- 

 ing in and out of our State that the coming and going 

 can be made pleasant, comfortable and available. 



We should see to it that our intra-state ways of inter- 

 communication are the best possible, and, to show the 



best in our State, some should be purely scenic roads, 

 coursing the ridge poles of our beautiful country. We 

 are beginning to have a very perfect road system, but we 

 must remember that we not only need to build roads but 

 to care for them. The best made road begins to dete- 

 riorate the moment it is finished and the motor, pushing 

 itself along by its wheels, finds the weak spots and un- 

 less attended to there is trouble for the road and discom- 

 fort, if not danger, for the user. 



Eternal vigilance is the price of good roads. 



If, in our striving for what is best for our State, we 

 give first thought to its desirability as a place to live and 

 get a living, with favorable and desirable environments 

 and conditions, we have gone a long way towards making 

 it e\en more desirable for the outsider, for the visitor. 



It can be done without disturbing our comfort or our 

 ease. It can be done with profit to ourselves and with little 

 or no additional labor, if we only make eft'ective every 

 bit of labor we do. 



We don't want to make Vermont the Switzerland of 

 America, but we want to make it the Green Mountain 

 State of America, unique and, of its kind, incomparable. 

 We want to develop its natural charms and resources. 

 We want to make it so attractive that it will hold its 

 young people here and bring the absent ones back. \Ve 

 want all the world to come here and play with us, and all 

 that can, to come and live with us. 



WHITE PINE BLISTER RUST QUARANTINE 



Governor S. V. Stewart, of the State of Montana, has 

 ordered a quarantine against the importation of any five- 

 leaved pines, currant and gooseberry bushes from the 

 States of Xew Hampshire, \'ermont, Massachusetts, Con- 

 necticut, New York, Pennsylvania and known infected 

 areas in other localities suspected of harboring the white 

 pine blister rust. 



All quarantine guardians and deputy state horticul- 

 tural inspectors have been instructed to refuse admission 

 into Montana of any shipments of nursery stock of five- 

 leaved pines, currant and gooseberry bushes from the 

 above named states and to immediately deport such ship- 

 ments or destroy them by burning. 



THE government will soon ask for bids for 330,000,000 

 feet of government timber on the Oregon National 

 Forest, much of which is Douglas fir. A strip of 

 timber will be preserved for scenic effect along 

 the projected road through the forest reservation. 



WASHING logs for safety's sake is the manner 

 in which a western camp follows out the new 

 economic principle of "Safety First." The logs 

 are scoured by jets of water, to remove broken 

 stone, gravel or other such material, which might, if struck 

 by a swiftly revolving saw, cause the saw to explode and 

 bring death or injury to workmen. 



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