THE state of Wisconsin is planning an extensive system 

 of reforestraticn. There is considerable opposition to 

 the scheme on ihe part of several interests. Land coin- 

 panles, for instance, owning cut-over lands, are lined up 

 against the new policies. Then, too, even county officers are 

 fighting the proposed measures. But the work is going to go 

 en, say those in Wisconsin interested in forestry. 



Wisconsin is iv.uch like Minnesota. In the neighboring 

 state, however, the great pine forests were denuded until 

 hardly a stick of the "cork pine" can be found. The refores- 

 traticn schemes being pushed in Wisconsin will be of inter- 

 est to those in Minnesota interested in this same subject. 

 Wisconsin's problems are similar to those that Minnesota 

 faces. A review of the Wisconsin situation will for that rea- 

 m prove of inteiest. 



Northern Wisconsin has a wonderful tract of over 1,000,000 

 :res, the natuial habitat of the pine giants. Studded in this 

 -ea are thousands of lakes. The million acres of proposed 

 >rest reserve is largely land better suited to forestry than 

 sriculture, and in most cases agricultural lands are badly 

 scattered, but the forestry board is entirely willing to help 

 build up communities where there is a sufficient area of 

 agricultural land. This enormous tract, almost unpopulated 

 except for owners of summer resorts, is the section selected 

 by the state for a great forest reserve, a prcje^t with three- 

 fold aims: 



First. This forest is planned to become a source of rev- 

 enue to the state by the production and sale of pine timber. 



Second. This timber area, headwaters of great rivers, 

 would provide a reservoir, a natural storage place, for water 

 to be used in industrial plants on these streams, in the new, 

 rapidly growing centers of the state. 



Third. The establishment in the North of a great summer 

 resort area, of enormous value for the amount of money an- 



17 



