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scattered for a large holder to consoli- 

 date them for profitable management. 



Disorganized markets, difficulties in 

 selling to responsible operators, heavy 

 taxes, and workmen's compensation in- 

 surance militate against a small tim- 

 berland owner in the North. Equally 

 difficult is the lack of good-quality 

 growing stock on the land. 



The public has already taken many 

 steps to encourage better forest prac- 

 tice in the North. Good fire control, 

 forest tax laws, service to private own- 

 ers in forest management and market- 

 ing have been introduced by many 

 States. These have been supplemented 

 by the educational and service pro- 

 grams promoted by the Federal Gov- 

 ernment through State foresters and 

 extension foresters. Research aimed at 

 helping private owners is being ex- 

 tended and broadened. Yet the public 

 needs to go further than it has to en- 

 courage full development. 



A few pioneers, such as Luther and 

 Watson, are doing outstanding work. 

 More should be encouraged and the 

 difficulties that beset them minimized. 

 It is most important that outstand- 

 ing leaders in the North recognize the 

 problems they must face. They are tak- 

 ing progressive steps to meet them. The 

 progressive thinking that has led to 

 State forest practice acts, to State aid 

 in management and marketing, and to 

 starting organizations such as Conn- 

 wood, the New England Forestry Foun- 

 dation, and programs of experimental 

 and demonstration forests is perhaps 

 the best guarantee of a bright future 

 for private forestry in the North. 



HARDY L. SHIRLEY is assistant dean, 

 the New York State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse University. 



The following furnished material for 

 his article: Herman Work and W. R. 

 Gingerich, West Virginia Pulp and 

 Paper Company; James G. McClellan, 

 American Forest Products Industries, 

 Inc.; Harris A. Reynolds, New Eng- 

 land Forestry Foundation; Ralph C. 

 Hawley, Connwood, Inc.; Russell Wat- 

 son, Manistique, Mich.; F. G. Kilp, 



Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company; 

 Karl A. Swenning, Hollingsworth and 

 Whitney Company; C. S. Herr, Brown 

 Company; William Hilton, Great 

 Northern Paper Company; Robert 

 Lyman, formerly with the Gray Chemi- 

 cal Company; George T. Carlisle, 

 Prentiss and Carlisle Company, Inc.; 

 George C. Sawyer, Houlton, Maine; 

 David H. Hanaburgh, consulting for- 

 ester, Buchanan, N. Y.; Lyman A. Bee- 

 man, Finch Pruyn Paper Company; 

 C. O. Brown, International Paper 

 Company; L. ]. Freedman, Penobscot 

 Development Company; R. B. Good- 

 man, Goodman Lumber Company; D. 

 B. Demeritt, Dead River Company; 

 E. O. Ehrhart, Armstrong Forest Com- 

 pany; T. F. Luther, The Luther For- 

 est; D. B. Bonebreak, Pocahontas Land 

 Corporation; E. B. Moore, New Jersey 

 Department of Conservation; Harold 

 Round, Pennsylvania Railroad; A. A. 

 Maxwell, Ruberoid Company; George 

 Amidon, Minnesota and Ontario Paper 

 Company; and E. B. Hurst, Consoli- 

 dated Water Power and Paper Co. 



A blazed tree on an old military trail in 

 Coeur d'Alene National Forest, Idaho. 



