THE voters of Southern and central Minnesota should not 

 for an instant imagine that, should the forestry amend- 

 ment to the state constitution be adopted next Novem- 

 ber, all the benefits arising from the establishment of state 

 forests will accrue to Northern Minnesota exclusively. There 

 are a great many tracts of hill and bluff and sandy bottom 

 land in the long-settled portions of the state, the day for the 

 profitable use of which in agriculture has either passed away 

 or never existed. As Mr. Records, of the state forest service, 

 points out in a recent valuable paper, if the present owners 

 of such tracts in any given neighborhood will collectively en- 

 ter into some form of co-operation with the forest service, a 

 sufficient area may be secured for its economical manage- 

 ment as a state forest. In the course of a few years, the 

 benefits will appear in the increased value of the adjacent 

 farms; in a regular supply of culls marketable for various 

 purposes, as the growing timber is thinned; in the coming of 

 various light wood-working industries; and finally in an abun- 

 dant supply of timber for home building and such heavier 

 manufacturing as wagon making. Meanwhile, the country 

 will have been made more beautiful; waste by erosion will 

 have been checked; the forest will have become a game pre- 

 serve, where deer and other game will one day abound, and 

 where birds of a hundred varieties will multiply and lend 

 their labor to the destruction of insect pests on the farms, 

 and their voices to a perpetual carnival of sweet sounds. 



The tenth successive year without a forest fire has just been 

 passed by the Powell national* forest in south central Utah. 



Garnett Peak, Wyoming, nearly 14,000 feet in elevation, and 

 the highest mountain in the state, is on the divide between the 

 Bonneville and Bridger national forests. 



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