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use of all available timber. Nor could people be expected to 

 have any different idea when the supporters of forestry 

 were everywhere quoting " Woodman, spare that tree" 

 and indulging in bitter tirades against the lumbermen and 

 the cutting of timber. Of course such a policy did not 

 appeal to practical men. 



When the forest reserves were transferred to the control 

 of the Forest Service, they were renamed National Forests 

 and every effort made to show that they were meant for 

 use, the most complete use, and not to be stored away in 

 idleness for an indefinite future. The subsequent handling 

 of these National Forests has done much to emphasize 

 this. The free use of the timber by the small settler has 

 been practically unrestricted and the lumber companies 

 have been sold stumpage at reasonable rates and allowed 

 to cut mature trees as rapidly as provision could be made 

 for a future crop. The restrictions put on the method of 

 cutting have not been burdensome. The grazing regula- 

 tions, at first thought to be prohibitive and a most unjust 

 imposition, have been found to be a boon to the country 

 and a most effective scheme for the more complete utiliza- 

 tion of the grazing lands. 



The sentimental side had played its part, and that an 

 important one, in forcing the attention of the people. 

 It accomplished this as no other phase of the question could 

 have done. Now, however, when the first stage of en- 

 thusiasm was over and the work of actual development 

 began, its memory remained as a hindrance. The scheme 

 proposed by the first sentimentalists was so visionary that 

 the whole system of forestry remained discredited in the 

 eyes of business men for some years. Nevertheless, 



