YOUNG NORWAY PINE 



in the vicinity of Mantrap Lake. There are several Townships in the vicinity 

 bearing thrifty timber like this. 



Waste Lands That Can be Made Yield a Handsome Revenue. 



These hills are the open mouths of reservoirs from which 

 the lakes and the great rivers of the state are fed. An ade- 

 quate forest cover on them is the only safe means whereby 

 this water supply can be stored up and distributed evenly. 

 Without it the hills would soon begin to wash, and the heavy 

 rains would carry the sand and gravel from them on to the 

 more fertile lands below. 



To the people of this state one of the most important, if 

 not the most important, conservation problem which they 

 have to face is the question of economically and profitably 

 handling her waste lands. These lands, as has been inti- 

 mated before, are widely distributed throughout the state, but 

 in the aggregate they represent an immense area which can 

 be made to produce a revenue, instead of as now being a 

 dead weight on the progress of the state. 



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