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'cessful but for lack of care. Successful efforts have been made on 

 the part of several cities along the lake shore in Southwestern Michi- 

 gan to cover dune areas which were encroaching upon these cities. 

 Perhaps the most successful results have been obtained in Golden 

 Oate Park, in San Francisco. Here the dunes were extensive and 

 were gradually moving toward the city. Experiments were made 

 with planting barley and some of the lupines, but success came only 

 when the beach grass was introduced. A large number of trees 

 have been planted and the most satisfactory are the Monterey Pine 

 and the Monterey Cypress, which are native to that immediate re- 

 gion. Some success has been obtained by the planting of several 

 .species of the Eucalyptus and the Australian wattles {Acacia lati- 

 folia and Acacia laphantha). 



THE FUTURE OF DUNE RECLAMATION. 



Wherever the Dunes exist in this country there are numerous 

 •grasses and other herbs which are well suited to preliminary plant- 

 ings and there are also numerous native conifers and a few broad- 

 leafed trees which have a high value for planting on sand wastes. 

 Investigations show that such conifers as the White Pine, Jack Pine, 

 Loblolly Pine, Norway Spruce, and Austrian Pine, where not sub- 

 jected to severe salt winds, are adapted for planting on dunes and 

 sand plains of the Eastern States. Along the Pacific Coast and in 

 the Columbia River country such conifers as the Bull Pine, Sand 

 Pine, Monterey Pine and Monterey Cypress are valuable for plant- 

 ing. 



On inland sandy lands, such as the sand hills of Nebraska, the 

 ■experimental planting of forest trees has been much more extensive 

 and more satisfactory, and there is now every reason to believe that 

 all of the so-called absolute waste lands of the West can be re- 

 claimed and made to grow forests of coniferous trees. The ex- 

 penditure of considerable sums of money and years of patient, per- 

 .sistent work will be required, yet the outcome can not be other than 

 a success, and that a financial one. 



The injury which is resulting each year from the movement of the 

 vdupes of this country demands that we do something to hold them, 

 ^o far in our national existence we have ignored the results of their 

 encroachment upon forests and fertile fields, and have often aided 

 4hem in their destructive work. As lands along our Atlantic and 



