MODERN FORESTRY 



tory results. A school of forestry has been 

 established by private aid, embracing fifteen 

 thousand acres of land known as Manitou Park, 

 some sixty miles from the city of Denver, 

 while the state agricultural college adds a 

 course in forestry in 1906. The following sug- 

 gestive words are from a leaflet issued by the 

 Colorado State Forestry Association, an organ- 

 ization in the interests of forest preservation: 

 " On coming to Colorado, the first settlers 

 found not less than thirty -six thousand square 

 miles of forest area, much of which was heavily 

 wooded with various kinds of valuable pines 

 and spruces, the heritage of centuries, waiting 

 for the miner, the farmer and the builder of 

 cities, with promise of timber in plenty for 

 generations to come. For many years no for- 

 estry laws were enacted. The woods were free 

 for all, and at once became the prey of insatiable 

 avarice and waste. By fire and wanton waste, 

 thirty thousand square miles of virgin forests 

 of the state have been destroyed, so experts 

 say. If true, the enormity is unparalleled ; for 

 under no sky, in any land, by any people, civ- 

 ilized, or uncivilized, was there ever so much 

 forest waste by a like number of inhabitants in 



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