REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 75 



Summary 



The Committee Found: 



1. That Wisconsin conditions are ideal tor the growing of trees, 

 particularly white and norway pine. 



2. That artificial reforestation will ultimately become a source of 

 profit to the State. 



3. That such planting should be confined to principally white and 

 norway pine. 



4. That quicker and cheaper results can be had by the encourage- 

 ment of natural second growth that is, natural reproduction. 



5. That it will only be a few years before owners of private estates 

 will engage in the reforestation of their non-agricultural lands. 



6. That the task given the committee to decide which of the lands 

 in the proposed Forest Reserve are best adapted to agriculture is an 

 impossible one; it would require a soil survey and cruising by experts. 

 That all the committee could do was to make general observations. 



7. That the question as to which of the lands are available for agri- 

 culture is a debatable one. That the demand in a few years may be 

 such that some of the land now really considered non-profitable for 

 farming may be cultivated. 



8. That the State lands now owned do not compare favorably with 

 other lands in the proposed reserve. 



9. That the selection of the lands in the proposed reserve was well 

 made and no better place could be found in the State. 



10. That lands should be held in large areas in order to lessen the 

 cost of fire protection and other expense of reforestation. 



11. That there are large areas in other parts of the State only fit 

 for forestry, which future commercial interests may demand the use of 

 for this purpose. 



12. That climatic conditions, while a hindrance in growing certain 

 crops, do no more than limit the field of operation, yet with oppor- 

 tunity for fairly good returns. 



13. That the committee found large areas which were very rough, 

 covered with gravel, stone and huge boulders. That large areas in 

 fa^t, a major portion of the lands which the committee had an oppor- 

 tunity to investigate are better adapted to forestry than to farming. 



14. That if these areas are used for forestry it will not interfere in 

 any way with the agricultural development, neither should farming 

 interfere with forestry. The one should assist the other. 



