16 REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



heavy land owner of Minocqua and Mr. E. M. 

 Weaver, Chief Forest Ranger, were with the party. 

 The reason for covering substantially the same area 

 as examined in the fall was to see the territory at a 

 time when everything was in bloom and growing, 

 because the former trip was made at a period when 

 practically all vegetation was dead. While it might 

 be said that in both of these trips the territory 

 covered was some of the wildest and poorest in the 

 proposed forest reserve, still, visits were made to 

 some of the very best kind of land. Members of 

 'the Committee at all times went out of their way to 

 visit the fields of farmers and into their granaries 

 and cellars to see what crops had been harvested. 



Prior to this last trip an attempt was made to 

 have the Executive Committee of which Mr. A. W. 

 Brown is the Chairman and Mr. B. N. Moran the 

 Secretary, and known as the "Executive Committee 

 Representing the Counties of Forest, Iron, Oneida, 

 Price and Vilas," plan a trip and accompany the 

 party, but this was refused, they stating that the 

 trip should be made at a later date. 



In the latter part of July the Chairman of this 

 Forestry Committee wrote to the Secretary of the 

 above mentioned Executive Committee asking that 

 they fix a date or dates for the Committee to make 

 another tour of inspection in their company and 

 under their guidance, but no reply was had to this 

 letter. 



On July 23, 1914, the following members of the 

 Committee met at Buffalo, N. Y.; Senators: A. 

 Pearce Tomkins, and H. A. Huber; Assemblymen: 

 R. J. Nye, E. j. Kneen, and H. M. Laursen for the 

 purpose of making a tour of inspection of the forest 

 reserves of Pennsylvania, New York and Connecti- 

 cut and with the further idea of visiting as many 

 private plantings of white and norway pine as could 

 be conveniently reached and of seeing as much as 

 possible of the natural reproduction of these two 

 specie where they had been protected from fire and 

 otherwise. 



