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at this juncture run in harmony with what we have looked on as the 

 true and long-range interests of the public. The case on their side is 

 ready. What shall be effected turns on the readiness of the public 

 and the standing and competence of those who especially represent it. 



I should myself, however, hate to see a movement in that direction 

 go too far, for on large areas, in conditions which we have now or 

 can expect, forestry of a certain type is harmonious with men's self- 

 interest. -The condition of things in the North Carolina pine country 

 has already been referred to, and within a year papers by Mr. Ashe 

 and Mr. Goodman have sought to interpret the facts and take best 

 advantage of them. Somewhat similar things are true elsewhere. In 

 fact, the application of forestry principles to business in land and 

 timber promises, when men of genius have fairly made the connection, 

 to be of great practical and general importance and a field of extreme 

 interest as well. I could illustrate what I mean abundantly were there 

 time. Believing that this will transpire and that it fits our people, I 

 should myself hate, for instance, to see all the forest land of the 

 Douglas fir region taken out of the field of private ownership and put 

 under the blanket of the public sway. That is really out of the ques- 

 tion, however. 



In what has been presented I have been speaking, as I think, 

 practically, of forestry as I look for it actually to come about in the 

 United States. The picture in mind is of forestry, not a cult, or the 

 possession of a group only, but a great enterprise of our people at 

 large, entered on freely and with full understanding, in accordance 

 with our genius and institutions, gaining gradually as occasion and 

 necessity arise. In the end our forestry and our lumber industry will 

 become one. And before that time can be said to have arrived, the 

 interests of the lumber industry will very often run parallel with those 

 of the future and the public in these matters. That community of 

 interest should be understood and utilized as one of the most potent 

 practical forces. 



I realize that many reflections inconsistent with these ideas must 

 have been in your minds during the reading of this paper. I will take 

 up one that I am sure has been there, and then conclude with two 

 broad views that I hope will be illuminating. 



The enormous waste of timber that occurred in the pineries of the 

 Lake States, and the lamentable present condition of much of the land 

 concerned has been laid up against the lumber industry and indeed 



