(The main portion of sin add res" delivered at the meeting- of the Minnesota 

 Forestry Association. A part of this same address was published last luouth.) 



THERE are still immense regions in Northern Minnesota 

 as well as in cur sister states of Wisconsin and Mich- 

 igan, which are to this day as wild as they were one 

 hundred years ago. It is true that over mcst of this region 

 the first growth of pine has been cut, and much of the land 

 has been burned over, but there are still large areas of prim- 

 itive spruce, tamarack and talsam, and forests of birch and 

 poplar, and even of maple. The lakes and strsams of this 

 wilderness are as interesting as ever, and the region fur- 

 nishes new even tetter feeding and breeding grounds for 

 moose and deer, and better nesting grounds for the wild birds, 

 than it did before the great pine forests were cut, for a close 

 stand of tall pine dees not afford a good feeding grcund for 

 either beast or bird. 



There is no region in the world where the hunter or camp- 

 er, or the general lover of outdoor life may find such absolute 

 freedom, as in our own North wocds, and if the resources cf 

 this great country, which equals about the whole of Great 

 Britain, were better known, the people of St. Louis, Kansas 

 City and Omaha, in fact all the inhabitants of the Mississippi 

 valley would resort to cur own North woods, just as the peo- 

 ple of Europe flock in hundreds of thousands to the Alps. 



Permit me to take up the "lure of the North woods" a litt'e 

 more in detail. Perhaps the most enthusiastic traveler in 

 the North woods is the hunter. Your true sportsman hunter 

 is a gentleman who is not trying to make a large bag. He 

 obeys the laws of the state in which he hunts, he leaves no 

 wounded animal in the wocds, and he doesn't fire until he is 

 sure that he fires at game, and not at a fellow hunter. As 

 said before, the North wcods now are a much better breed- 

 ing and feeding ground for all kinds of large game, with the 

 possible exception of the black tear, than they ever were 



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