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the full number of trees in any forest re- 

 servation shall be removed in any one 

 \ear, excepting- that such trees as may 

 die naturally may be removed, when other 

 trees shall be planted. 



Sec. 8. Ash, maple, pine, oak, hick- 

 ory, basswood, elm, black locust, honey 

 locust, Kentucky coffee tree, chestnut, 

 walnut, butternut, larch, "tulip tree, mul- 

 berry, osage orange, sassafras and ca- 

 talpa shall be considered forest trees 

 within the meaning" of this act. 



Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Au- 

 ditor in every county to keep a record of 

 all forest reservations as the same shall 

 be filed with him, and he shall require 

 the owner or agent to subscribe under 

 oath the extent and description of the 

 land reserved, and that the number of 

 trees is as required by this act, and that 

 he vvill maintain the same according to 

 the mtent of this enactment. 



Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the 

 Assessor to personally examine the vari- 

 ous forest reservations when the real es- 

 tate is appraised, and to note upon his 

 return the conditions of the trees, in or- 

 der that the intent of this act may be 

 complied with. And if the reservation is 

 properly planted and continuously cared 

 for, he shall appraise the same at one 

 dollar per acre. 



A CANADIAN'S OPINION. 



Garden and Forest, 1890, Page 602, 

 has an article from ?\{. J. X. Pirrault of 

 Quebec from which we extract a sen- 

 tence wdiich is as golden in 1903 as it 

 was when spoken in i860. "The forest- 

 Avealth of the United States has been so 

 used and abused that already the richest 

 forests have disappeared. The pine of 

 Michigan, \\"isconsin and Minnesota, 

 once considered inexhaustible, exist no 

 longer. They have been exterminated. 



"The improvidence of the government, 

 and the insatiate desire to grow rich 

 rapidly, have brought our neighbors' for- 

 ests into this condition. It seems almost 

 incomprehensible that a nation so intel- 

 ligent and practical can allow itself to be 

 despoiled of one of the principal sources 

 of national wealth while it was so easy 

 to render it perpetually productive." 



ATTICA'S WASTED FORESTS. 



"From Professor Charles Burton 

 Ciulick's new book on "Life of the An- 

 cient (ireeks.' 



"in the midlaud districts wheat and 

 barley could be raised in small quantities, 

 and the mountain sides were protected 

 from detrition by deep forests. Yet as 

 early as the fourth century B. C. the 

 ruthless and short-sighted stripping of 

 timber began, and in the Middle Ages 

 desolation spread through the carelessness 

 of wandering shepherds, who, like sports- 

 n:en and campers of to-day, frequently 

 caused wasting forest fires. 



" 'As earl}^ as the fourth century Attica 

 was becoming a waste, because the state 

 and the people failed to realize the im- 

 portance of preserving the once rich 

 woodlands of Parnes, Pentelicus and Fly- 

 mettus. The trees were cut down waste- 

 fully by lumbermen, who found their pro- 

 fit in the great demand for timber for 

 house and shipbuilding, furniture and 

 fuel. Perhaps most harm was done to the 

 forests by shepherds and goatherds, who 

 deliberately burned dow^n trees in order 

 to gain more pasture land.' 



"The statements that destruction of for- 

 ests would work irreparable harm, that 

 unrestricted grazing in the forest reserves 

 would resiilt in their great injury, that it 

 is a proper function of the government to 

 preserve forests, have been met by more 

 or less ridicule on the part of those in- 

 terested in getting at the timber or other- 

 wise using the lands. Here is competent 

 testimony as to the effect of forest spoli- 

 ation upon Greece, a record of actual ex- 

 perience, not of speculative reasoning. 



"Possibly Greece's glory would not all 

 be in the dim past if her forests had 

 been preserved. Her maritime power 

 might not have vanished, her soil might 

 not have become so lean and stony, her 

 climate would certainly have been modi- 

 fied, the s])irit of her people might have 

 been perpetuated by an environment 

 which brought it to so great a degree of 

 refinement and strength. No good re- 

 sults of the destruction of Attica's 

 mountain forests can be cited. The evil 

 effects were many and obvious. May 

 we not learn something from this his- 

 tory ?" — Portland Oregonian, 



