20 REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



Hon. I. C. Williams, Deputy Commissioner of For- 

 estry, Hon. Simon B. Elliott and other gentlemen 

 present went into detail and described the work done 

 by the Forestry Department of Pennsylvania from its 

 nception. 



Both Mr. Pettis of the New York Department and 

 Mr. Filley and Prof. Tourney of Connecticut were 

 most kind in furnishing every bit of information pos- 

 sible and answering the many questions of the Com- 

 mittee. 



Careful observations were made of the soil, cli- 

 matic and other conditions with the idea of ascer- 

 taining just how far conditions in the States visited 

 compared with those of our own. 



The people of Wisconsin will, no doubt, be inter- 

 ested in the comparison of the work of our own 

 State with that of the East. While we have been at 

 work a very few years only, what has been done 

 measures up in every way with the work of our sis- 

 ter States. The nursery beds at Trout Lake com- 

 pare very favorably with Eastern nurseries and are 

 fully as good as any the Committee saw elsewhere. 

 Our plantings of pine, while irmch younger, are doing 

 fully as well. These plantings have all been made from 

 stock grown in our own nurseries with the exception 

 of a few thousand Western Yellow pine purchased 

 from the State of Michigan before our own nurseries 

 were turning out any planting stock. When it comes 

 to results obtained in the construction of fire lines, 

 telephone systems and rangers' cabins and the gen- 

 eral work of maintenance, we believe the results we 

 have accomplished are as good, if not better, than 

 those of the three eastern States visited. 



The State Forester is to be congratulated on the 

 field force under him. We found them all to be very 

 thorough and much interested in their work. 



On Nov. 12, 13, and 14, 1914, a general hearing 

 was held at the Hotel Wisconsin at Milwaukee. 

 Notices were sent out to a great number who had 

 signified a desire to express their views as to the 

 kind of a forestry policy Wisconsin should engage in. 



