STORY OF ITASCA STATE PARK. 



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Today the farmer who wants to make a plantation of forest trees 

 has trouble in obtaining a sufficient quantity of tree seedlings at 

 reasonable rates and in getting species that will succeed in his sec- 

 tion of the country. The nurserymen are not as yet prepared to 

 supply this trade. The surplus of seedlings in the nursery not 

 needed for the reserves could be sold to such buyers at cost, and 

 no seedlings would be sold except those suited to the section in 

 which they were to be planted. This would be an enormous ad- 

 vantage to tree planters all over the state and would do much to 

 promote and improve the planting in prairie regions without in 

 any way competing with the nurserymen of the state. 



Old Lodge— Now Boarded up. 

 A Model Forest. The reserve would be conducted on the lines 

 of a model forest managed according to scientific forestry meth- 

 ods. It would be a place where the lumberm.en' could see the re- 

 sults of such management. One trip through such a reserve would 

 do more, to convince the practical lumbermen of the feasibility of 

 such methods than all the talking under the sun could ever accom- 

 plish. It would be a place where they could come to study im- 

 proved methods and obtain accurate figures as to such matters. The 

 effect in raising the lumbering standard throughout the state could 

 not but be tremendous. It would call the attention of the public 



