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dwell therein, to bring up his children, and to leave 

 them a heritage in the country not merely unim 

 paired, but if possible even improved. That is the 

 sensible view of civic obligation, and the policy of 

 the State and of the Nation should be shaped in that 

 direction. It should be shaped in the interest of the 

 home-maker, the actual resident, the man who is 

 not only to be benefited himself, but whose children 

 and children's children are to be benefited by what 

 he has done. California has for years, I am happy 

 to say, taken a more sensible, a more intelligent in 

 terest in forest preservation than any other State. 

 It early appointed a forest commission ; later on some 

 of the functions of that commission were replaced 

 by the Sierra Club, a club which has done much 

 on the Pacific Coast to perpetuate the spirit of the 

 explorer and the pioneer. Then I am happy to say 

 a great business interest showed an intelligent and 

 farsighted spirit which is of happy augury, for the 

 Redwood Manufacturers of San Francisco were 

 first among lumbermen's associations to give as 

 sistance to the cause of practical forestry. The study 

 of the redwood which the action of this association 

 made possible was the pioneer study in the co-opera 

 tive work which is now being carried out between 

 lumbermen all over the United States and the Fed 

 eral Bureau of Forestry. All of this kind of work 

 is peculiarly the kind of work in which we have a 

 right to expect not merely hearty co-operation from, 

 but leadership in college men trained in the uni 

 versities of this Pacific Coast State; for the forests 



