THE NEW EARTH 



bear in the United States. The forests, largely 

 owned by stock companies and individuals, 

 were rapidly going the way of destruction, 

 despite the centuries of testimony on the part 

 of Germany, to the south, that it pays to pre- 

 serve the forests and harvest them, and the 

 work of preservation and protection was begun 

 by the government just in time. Sweden 

 now has her national school of forestry, and 

 is abreast with modern progress in preserving 

 and extending her forests. 



While much has been done within a genera- 

 tion, in our own country, by way of educa- 

 tion, to show those most immediately con- 

 cerned, the lumbermen, and those most vitally 

 concerned, the people, that it pays to keep 

 faith with Nature in her forests no less than 

 in her soils and their products, yet much 

 remains to be done. We shall find, however, 

 that it is only since these years of the awaken- 

 ing of the New Earth that real practical, tell- 

 ing work has been done. In the generation of 

 the New Earth's most rapid growth, forestry 

 in America has been born, or, a better figure, 

 has been galvanized into life. Sporadic, though 

 most earnest attempts were made, all through 



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