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who says the white pine will not reproduce and if you cut it 

 down you will have poplar and jack pine to take its place. I 

 want to tell you I was right up there over a "dead and down" 

 forty that had been recently logged over, and there was on that 

 forty but one lone white pine — and why that did not come un- 

 der the "dead and down" act is a mystery, but that stands 

 there — and the ground is covered with seedlings from that 

 white pine, and not only there but everywhere we went we 

 found white pine, Norway and jack pine in all stages of growth. 

 I have not had forty years in the pineries, and I do not ask you 

 to take my word for it, but I have specimens here of the re- 

 production of the white pine and the Norway pine from the re- 

 serve in iMinnesota. These (exhibiting some young pine trees) 

 were taken from the reserve, and you can look at them if you 

 want to see them later. The trouble is a lumberman cannot see 

 a pine tree if it has not four or five logs in it. I will say that be- 

 fore I became interested in this subject of reforestation when 

 I went out to estimate a piece of ground I did not look around 

 me, I looked up. 



I want to quote again from the Cass Lake paper : "What 

 the impressions of Mrs. Hudson were when she saw the de- 

 struction and havoc made bv the wind will never be known." 



I,umbered area on which brush has been piled but not burned, logs skidd* d and piled. 

 Reproduced by permission of the Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



