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states, like Connecticut and Massachusetts, put this as the 

 primary object of such forest reserves. But in the final 

 analysis, it takes permanent ownership and a settled pol- 

 icy to bring success in raising trees on a large scale. Pri- 

 vate owners die and their estates are sold, or they change 

 their minds and cut the timber and there is nothing to 

 prevent these things. With states or the nation as owner, 

 and a policy once strongly intrenched by popular support, 

 the best possible opportunity is given to the forester to 

 grow the timber which will supply our needs in the future. 

 Real progress in forestry in any state will be largely meas- 

 ured by the extent to which the state itself is interested 

 in forest lands. 



