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park was put under the control of the forestry board, it would 

 be an ideal place for a forestry school. My idea is that a school 

 could be established there under the direction of the Board of 

 Regents of the University, and for that purpose they could use 

 the old house that is standing in the park. It could easily be 

 put into condition for use. The students would go up there the 

 first of April and stay until the first of September. They would 

 take such work as nursery work and such as came up in con- 

 nection with the planting and care of trees. By sending them 

 up there the first of April and letting them stay until the first of 

 September they could be put in touch with actual forestry con- 

 ditions and would have the best opportunity in the world for 

 making a study of them. They would be brought face to face 

 with the actual thing. I also think the legislature should pro- 

 vide proper fire protection for this park, and that would be an- 

 other thing that could be demonstrated in this school of forestry. 



The legislature ought to do a number of things, but these 

 matters appeal to me especially, and I am sure they would mark 

 quite an advance in the forestry situation in this state were 

 they undertaken. 



President Owen : There is no doubt but what every word 

 that Prof. Green has said is absolutely true, and this great 

 State of Minnesota should take hold of the forestry matter 

 immediately. I took up the paper the other morning and read 

 an item saying that one of the large sawmills of this city would 

 be closed forever. Now, this is but the beginning of the end. 

 The grand heritage that was left to these people is being swept 

 away, and the people have not been benefited. In the earlier 

 days of this state the great pine forests were wasted. I know 

 very well that in the early contracts for logs made in this 

 state, it was specified that no logs should be cut smaller than 

 eight inches at the top and now they are willing to cut logs not 

 over five inches, and I have seen down in the state of Maine, in 

 booms and in mills, logs that would not make telephone poles, and 

 so crooked that it would be utterly impossible to get anything 

 out of them in the shape of lumber, except by cutting them up 

 into four and six foot lengths. The State of Minnesota is suffer- 

 ing the same way, and ten years from now I do not believe there 

 will be a sawmill running in the city of Minneapolis. Is it not 

 time for the government to take hold of the forestry situation 

 when there is an opportunity like this in the State of Minnesota? 

 I believe sentiment is growing so strong that people will de- 

 mand that the state make an appropriation for growing timber 

 and the cultivation and reforestation of the land. 



