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opment work, and the expenditures to date, therefore, have been 

 practically nothing. The plan under way provides for the plant- 

 ing of the non-timbered areas to White pine and for the extension 

 of the pine planting to the suitable portions of those parts now 

 in small hardwoods and sprouts, it being desirable to restore as 

 much of the forest as possible to its original type of a pure stand 

 of White pine. A close study is being made of the local markets 

 for forest products and it is hoped that the returns from the 

 improvement cuttings of the timbered portions of the forest will 

 to a considerable extent offset the cost of the proposed planting. 

 Even at this time of small beginnings, hope is entertained that with 

 the inevitable addition of other areas, the municipal forest of 

 Fitchburg will eventually bear the same relation to the city that is 

 borne to their respective communities by the town forests of 

 Europe. 



