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business interests, and makes prosperity with us. Is it best, I lay 

 it before you, is it best that the pine lumber industry should die, 

 should perish, and with it the advantages that are to be received from 

 that source? No, gentlemen, no, let us preserve the forests, let the 

 good work proceed; and let us lay intelligent plans and use our 

 best efforts to perpetuate this supply of timber as one of the great 

 resources of this state. 



Therefore, with this idea in view, I have certain resolutions which 

 I will submit to this society for its consideration. I will read the 

 same, with your permission. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Whereas, the best interests of the public demand that as important an 

 industry as that of lumbering should be perpetuated, and, 



Whereas, a proper percentage of forests exercises a most favorable influence 

 upon the growth and prosperity of the country by checking the sweep of the 

 winds, by maintaining an even and abundant supplj' of moisture in the ground 

 thus tending to maintain the flow of our springs and rivers in even volume, 

 and. 



Whereas, it is especially desirable that in a cold climate like Minnesota a cer- 

 tain percentage of the forests covering this state should be maintained to pre- 

 vent the drifting of snow in winter and drying out of the land in summer 

 and to promote bodily comfort thereby and a supply of fuel in a state which, 

 though rich in other resources, is destitute of coal measures, and, 



Whereas, the experience of later civilization is that the public interest has 

 made it necessary to reforest at an enormous expense lands previously denuded, 

 and, 



Whereas, the highest expression of civilization demands that no great re- 

 source of nature should be annihilated, therefore: 



Resolved, that the Minnesota State Horticultural Societj' and the Minnesota 

 Forestry Association favor the necessary use of our mature forest resources for 

 the demands of trade and commerce and the reforesting of a proper percentage 

 of our denuded forests in order that our forest resources may be maintained : 



Resolv'ED, that a non-political commission be created of persons experienced 

 in forest management to make selection of such lands as are better suited 

 to forestry than to agriculture, the title of which is to be continued forever in the 

 state, and that such lands be maintained in a forested condition; 



RESOLVED, that the ininnesota State Horticultural Society and the Minnesota 

 Forestry Association endorse the act passed for the protection of the state from 

 forest and prairie fires as a forward step in the intelligent management of the 

 forest resources of the state: 



RESOl.\'ED, that a general committee of the Minnesota State Horticultural 

 Society and the Minnesota Forestry Association and of other like organizations 

 in the state and of the citizens of the state of Minnesota, be appointed to frame 

 and promote the passage of a suitable forestry law to be presented to the next 

 legislature of the state of Minnesota for the creation of a permanent forest 

 domain, as an act suitable and appropriate to the present demands and con- 

 ditions of the state; 



RESOL\-ED, that the members of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society 

 and the Minnesota Forestry Association pledge themselves to further by all pos 

 Bible means the object named in the foregoing resolutions. 



Ladies and gentlemen of the society, these resolutions are placed 

 before you for your consideration. I believe this to be one of the 

 most important matters that can be taken up by the state of Minne- 

 sota tor our prosperity, comfort and pleasure and to further all of the 

 legitimate objects of comfortable living. I thank you kindly, ladies 

 and gentlemen, for your attention. 



