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follow that our mountain streams are largely doomed, 

 and that the preservation of the trees at or near their 

 sources will but partially save them. 



If this be true, it is to be hoped that the Board 

 of Fisheries, Game and Forests in this State will check, 

 so far as may lie in its power, the further cutting or 

 destruction of the trees in the cleared lands and 

 woods throughout the entire State, and use every 

 effort in its power to f.oster a general spirit in favor 

 of planting and preserving trees everywhere through- 

 out the State. 



