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the mountains are visited already annually by people from every 

 state in the Union for rest and recreation of a kind found in few 

 other places. As nothing can be done by congress until the facts 

 of the case are fully set forth, the Society for the Protection of 

 Forests has had introduced in the state legislature another bill 

 appropriating $5,000 for an examination of the forests in the 

 mountain regions of the state by the Bureau of Forestry at 

 Washington. This bill has passed, and the work will shortly be- 

 gin. 



The plan for a national reservation has the emphatic en- 

 dorsement of President Roosevelt, Secretary Hay, and the sen- 

 ators and representatives from New Hampshire and prominent 

 citizens in all parts of New England are giving active support. 

 Aside from this hoped-for reservation much benefit must result 

 from the examination itself, because it will give to New Hamp- 

 shire people knowledge of their own conditions and offer sugges- 

 tions as to the best means of managing our mountain forests. 



Philip W. Ayres. 



