MICHIGAN ROADS AND FORESTS 



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was succeeful in preventing the passage of the 

 hill at that time, but an agreement was reached 

 by which a vote will be taken on the hill on the 

 15th of February, 1911. 



The handling of this measure for the last 

 three years is conclusive proof that Congress 

 cares nothing for the will of the people. The 

 height of statesmanship in the House was 

 reached by the Hon. Edgar D. Crumpacker of 

 Indiana, in his speech against the bill. He sug- 

 gested the employment of two old-fashioned 

 windmills with pumps at the head of the Con- 

 necticut River as a means of supplying more 

 water in the river and doing "more for naviga- 

 tion than will be done under this scheme in a .... 

 quarter of a century." The Indiana statesman disposition and management of our State lands. 

 also said : 



ifty years ago and more the great prairie Every citizen should be interested in this work and join the Asso- 



states in the Mississippi Valley were covered 

 with swamps and sloughs that were saturated 

 with water the year round. They contributed 

 much toward the rainfall in the valley dur- 

 ing the best days of July and the dog-day sea- 

 son. They gave to the atmosphere vapor that 

 went up into the clouds and made rain. Those 

 swamps have all boen drained. Thcv are dry. 

 They are farms and pardons now. The govern- 

 ment might as well enter upon an undertaking 

 for the common pood to reestablish those __ _______ _ _______________________ 



swamps and slomrhs on those fertile lands in the 



prairie states, with a view to promoting rainfall " ext winter, and for several years to come, waiting too long before we are supplied in 



in the Mississippi Valley. To anv man wanting to take a hand in this the same way; a good job for our Public Do- 



The New York Sun was so impressed with immediate fjg nt f or the rights and property main Commission. 



s powerful argument that it remarked, after | u . r P ; !?P le ; th " e is n be er opportunity The State of New York i s on hand, as usuai, 

 ing the speech at some length: "There the Conservation Association, get , tQ g hef activiti and rea j leadership in 



were other foolish speeches made in opposition bulletins and literature, and get the direc- f or est ry matters 



to the Appalachian forest reserve bill but the tions which will tell him when to strike and ,, T . . T . . 



palm must be awarded to the Hon. Edgar D whe . re and how to strike. For further infor- LPP>rig Branches m Lumbering. 



Crumpacker." mation. address O. W. Price, Colorado Bldg., Written by Mr. John W. Stephen, (a good 



If this bill needed more support than the pow- Washington, D. C. U. of M. product), describes the methods and 



erfu! scientific, economic, and 1e?al arguments The fifth annual meeting of the Michigan res "'ts as well advantages of this method 

 that have been massed in its behalf during the Forestry Association, which will be held at c ' ear| mK U P in the forest. The pamphlet is 

 ten years of discussion, this would he found in Kalamazoo Tuesday and Wednesday, Novem- we " illustrated and should be helpful in the 

 the fart that the best its opponents can do ber 15 and 16, promises to be the most not- S reat problem of protection. 

 ae-ainst it i<s tvpifird bv the filibuster in the Sen- able gathering in the history of the organi- 

 ate and such arguments as Mr. Crumpackcr's in zation. 



The subjects to be discussed are agitating 



Michigan Forestry Association 



HAS FOR ITS OBJECT 



The modification of our laws which will enable the holding and 

 reforesting of forest lands. 



The protection of forest property against fire and trespass. The 



ciation. Membership fee $1.00 per year, including yearly subscription 

 to Michigan Roads and Forests, the official organ of the Association. 



PROF. HUBERT ROTH, Secretary, 



Ann Arbor, Michigan 



House. This last excerpt is. placed here 

 merely to illustrate that the farts in a case are 



The "Annual Report of the Department of 

 Forestry," by Austin Cary. gives us in concise 

 a clear statement of forestry affairs in 



- the entire country. Public-spirited citizens ^ ew York a ? the y are J" d 8 ed and described 

 Vnner-cc in the Congress and that our thrruahout the state should rally to the Asso- bv an experienced timberman and forester! 

 11 prefer to be governed and have their elation meeting and carry home a messape As usual the report is well illustrated. Among 



the verv princes of ignorance. All .-esfions are open to the public, free. The 



intercftod specially in the Appalachian official headquarters will he at the American 

 I.I will find a full description of Congressional Hotel. The program follows- 

 domes in the Ausrust Number of American 

 Fore=trv, and it is surely pood reading not only 

 for forests but for any citixen who cares to see 

 how and why laws are not made. 



the specially interesting features are the mat- 

 ter of fire protection bv means of stations on 

 the mountains. That New York means busi- 

 ness in this matter is well illustrated by the 

 following, taken from this report: For an 

 area of about 3.000,000 acres or 1-3 of the Up- 

 per Peninsula there were employed patrolmen. 

 Forty (40) regular patrolmen were employed 



IVJFW PnOVC A wr IVTrkTPO 

 IVJC-W K UUK h AIND NOTES. 



"Lumber Saved by Using Odd Lengths." This 

 is the title of a very timely little circular which 



>TA WAKES I the United States Forest Service is sending at the height of the fire season, supplemented 



The Minnesota State Forestry Board will hold Ollt tn show where a great saving in timber with a larger number of specials, with three 



a meef'ne' to discuss forest fires, Dec. fith and mav ' le made. We have, all too long, cut our watchers of plantations and eight observers 



7th, and the hoard is seivlinsr out invitations to ' loal "ds to even feet, 10, 12, 14, 16 ft., etc., ani! on mountain stations. Sixteen regular patrol- 



all people interested in this 'ibiect, in t'-e Great ' npve thereby wa=ted millions of feet every- men hold over the winter, engaged in enforc- 



LaVes region, pprtiVu'arlv Minnesota. Wisconsin where, merely to please the whim of a wasteful ing the law requiring the tops to be lopped 



and Michigan. This will be a notable gathering build'ng .trade. It is clearly shown that in and to some extent employed in maintenance 



and is st're to result in some poor'. The Public ac "tunl trials, over 2% of the lumber may be of the State's property rights. 



Domain Commission will send a representative. saved, an item of over 20.000.000 feet per year Game Protectors: 



on the cut of Michigan alone. 



CONSERVATION AND THE 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 



There is so much talk of conservation nowa- 



Protection of Forests From Fire. 



Thirty of the protectors reside in forest pre- 

 serve counties, and some of them do good 

 service in protecting the State's property frorr 



Under this title comes Bulletin No 82 of trespass and otherwise helping out the work 



of this branch of the Commission. 

 The work on the Forest Reserve called "Th? 



davs and so much extension of the term and f ' ie United States Forest Service, prepared by 



new applications of the principle, that there Prof - H - S - Graves. This is really the first . 



is some dantrer that many people will los comprehensive statement on this subject ever Highlands of the Hudson, .by forester Moon 



sipht of the main issues and the main facts" P-Wished in our country and should be read ! s a most readaD ' e - interesting and beautifully 



and with it the main tasks before our nation' bv everyone interested in the protection of illustrated pamphlet giving some excellent dl- 



It is a booklet of 48 pages, amply regions in various lines of forestry work. 



" 



Wisconsin Wood Industries. 



Conservation, as we have it here today, was P. lir -- ,~. -~, ...,..j 



born out of forestry, and all friends of for- "1-strated and treats the subject from the 

 estrv are interested at least in the phasos f re ster's standpoint, 

 afff-tinrr forests and forestry. 



The National Conservation Association, tin- 

 der the leadership of Mr. Pinchot, has done 

 admirable work. Last winter a lot of truly 

 daneerous, dishonest lepislation was pre- 

 vented, and some good thinps became law. 



But the apents of the grabber bunch, such cernmg 

 men as Carter, Heyburn & Co., will again be and 

 on hand to try to shape lepislation in favor for cimerent purposes. 



warer^nd i f will ,! JT Ul> f TV "l'. nerals . or booklet that ought to be'in'the'hands'of' every 

 work'; "and' especially - ""l-l^!*'* ^^ wood worker - w d <* 

 speaking of your 



But again it is the pamphlet on "Re.fores:- 

 ing Operations," by Forester C. R. Pettis, now 

 State Superintendent of Forests, which attracts 

 our attention most. It is clear that Mr. Pettis' 

 work, well supported by Mr. Whipple and 

 by_a co-opera- Governor Hughes, is making excellent prog- 

 ress and that New York is far in the front 

 in -this most important work of reforesta- 

 tion. Over a million trees were bought by 



private parties from the state nurseries, and 



of. the wood they use much more were applied for but could not be 

 s a most instructive sunnlied. 



The work in these nurseries, the planting 

 of trees in wild lands, the experimental work 

 nil are well described and illustrated. There 

 are few books which present these matters 



tion of the United States Forest Service and 

 the State Forester of Wisconsin gives us for 

 't,.;? first time full and reliable information con- 

 ftfferent wood industries, 



