146 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



For the twelfth time, Minnesota's Prophet of Forestry, Gen. C. C. Andrews, 

 presents to the government and people of the State his annual report. For nearly 

 thirteen years Gen. Andrews has given to the forestry interests of the State the 

 most painstaking and conscientions study; to the protection of its forests against 

 fire, in his capacity as chief fire warden, the most vigilant watch-care. * * * 



But his service as fire warden, important as it has been, has not paralleled in 

 magnitude that which he has sought to render in the capacity of a public teacher 

 of the principles of forestry. By the conditions of the act creating his office, it 

 was made a part of his duty to "disseminate information concerning forestry." 

 That part of his commission he has interpreted in the terms of the enthusiast 

 more and more so as the mistakes and wastefulness of the State's policy toward 

 its lumbering interests became clear to him, and he perceived the necessity of pro- 

 viding in Minnesota, the traditional "home of the pine" and the storehouse of a 

 forest wealth once deemed "inexhaustible" against a treeless future. He has 

 been indefatigable in traveling over the State as the herald and exponent of a 

 rational forestry. In lectures before schools, colleges and societies; in frequent 

 contributions to the newspapers; in conversations with individuals and in labors 

 before legislative committees, he has presented such an array of facts and figures 

 as should, as the result of his work, have made Minnesota foremost among all 

 the States in its provisions for maintaining its forests and averting an impending 

 lumber famine. His annual reports have been masterly in their presentation of 

 the forestry situation here as compared with that in Europe and in other States 

 of our Union, and in their arguments, verbal and pictorial, for the substitution in 

 Minnesota of a wealth-producing for a wealth-destroying system. Pioneer Press, 

 St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 6, 1907. 



