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wider sense in which I have defined it, necessary in order to prevent the 

 consequences of mismanagement of the protective forest cover in such par- 

 ticular situations. 



The sugar planter in Louisiana, whose crop is endangered or destroy- 

 ed by overflows due to causes a thousand miles away, has a right to protec- 

 tion through the government. 



Finally, however, it will be found that control and supervision of pri- 

 vate property is an unsatisfactory, expensive, and only partially effective 

 method of securing conservative forest management, where the necessity 

 of maintaining a forest growth may exist and the financial margin that can 

 be had from it is but small. Experience in the old countries has shown 

 that, in spite of the much more perfect machinery for enforcing laws, and 

 in spite of the much more ready disposition to submit to laws, than we are 

 accustomed to see in this country, the attempts to control private property 

 have been largely without the desired result. 



It then becomes preferable for the community to own and manage such 

 forest areas. 



Such ownership may rest either in the state or else in the country, the. 

 town, or other political subdivision which seems most nearly interested in 

 the maintenance of the protective cover. To obtain possession, if it cannot 

 be had by purchase, the necessity of exercising eminent domain is now re- 

 cognized in most civilized states where public objects, public safety, or pub- 

 lic utility require it ; usually, however, the objects for which this power may 

 be called into requisition are definitely stated by law. 



Finally, when the ideal, the socialistic, co-operative, most highly or- 

 ganized state will have developed, the policy will be that the community 

 shall own or control and devote to forest crops all the poorest sioils and 

 sites, leaving only the agricultural soils and pastures to private enterprise. 



