The End of a Chapter 



With this- issue of The North Woods, Mr. A. L. Wool- 

 dridge, the editor, retires to enter the government Con- 

 sular Service. He goes, feeling that he leaves a great 

 work to be done the proper education of the public 

 to realization of what the vast, yet rapidly diminishing 

 timber areas of the Northwest, mean to the people. 

 Minnesota has standing forests worth a billion dollars 

 to her citizens. She has vast areas of timber lands 

 which must be reforested and which will be reforested 

 when the possibilities are understood. The timber re- 

 sources must be developed, factories must be built, the 

 land available for agriculture be turned by the plow- 

 share and yet all this must be 'done in a way that will 

 not deprive the coming generations of their rightful 

 heritage. 



The North Woods, as best it could, has been preach- 

 ing the gospel of "Conservation" and under new leader- 

 ship will continue to preach such gospel. If it has ac- 

 complished even in a small measure, some of the ob- 

 jects for which it was intended if it has succeeded in 

 making one man or a hundred men take more interest 

 in the protection and upbuilding of the state's second 

 greatest resource, it will be felt that the work done 

 was not in vain. The task, however, has only started 

 and the most yet remains to be accomplished. Let it 

 be hoped that it will be accomplished and in right man- 

 ner for the good of all. THE EDITOR. 



