The forests can make use of our 

 inferior lands; they can produce an 

 income large enough to pay our 

 State taxes from the lands which have 

 been reverting to the State because 

 they were considered too poor or 

 worthless to pay taxes on them. 



The forests are the only crop of 

 which we are certain that it can be 

 produced satisfactorily on millions of 

 acres of our lighter sandy lands. 



The trees, the woodlot and the for- 

 est can help us do our duty to our 

 children and to our State. The for- 

 est is the most potent agent of na- 

 ture, making this world habitable for 

 man, and there is no means now at 

 our disposal which can help us more 

 than the forest to preserve and to 

 restore the beauty of our State and 

 the fertility of our land, and thus live 

 up to the universal moral obligation 

 of leaving the country at least no 

 poorer than we found it; leaving this 

 world no worse for our having been 

 here. 



A FEW QUESTIONS AND AN- 

 SWERS. 



Do We Need the Forests? 



Michigan uses a round 2,000 million 

 feet of lumber timber, besides fire 



