sands more wfco find pleasure in the study and care of bird 

 life. All of us in the above classes depend upon the forests 

 directly for a continuance of our pleasure, whether it be that 

 of the sportsman or the more pacific bird protector. 



I am not dealing now with the vast possibilities of this state 

 as a surpassingly excellent territory for the summer resorter, 

 whose name is legion, nor with the commercial aspect, of 

 value to those who should foster and develop this transient 

 business, for our railroads, hotels, sporting goods dealers and 

 the host of people who would properly profit by such a pat- 

 ronage as we should have. My intent and desire is to ap- 

 peal to our own individual necessities for appreciation and 

 assistance in every way for the cause of forestry. 



One needs but to travel through the extensive areas of the 

 whole North country to realize the deplorable devastation and 

 desolation of our formerly beautiful land at the hands of a 

 few selfish and mercenary lumbering interests. It is high 

 time yes, far past the time when all such operations should 

 be subjected to proper control by the state, and while we can- 

 not expect owners of valuable standing timber to forego the 

 profits accruing from its manufacture into lumber, we can 

 require them to log with more care or to reforest areas de- 

 nuded, leaving something for coming generations. One of the 

 good but difficult attainments of the forest service is the dis- 

 posal of slashings by lumbermen. The rangers see to it that 

 brush, tops and debris of a logged district shall be burned as 

 soon after the lumbering operations are concluded as may be 

 done with safety to young timber and timber on adjoining 

 tracts. This cleaning up prevents disastrous forest fires and 

 leaves the ground in shape to develop a new growth more 

 quickly, and is a vast improvement -over the old way of leav- 

 ing everything to litter up and endanger the country. 



Probably everyone interested in nature now understands 

 the relation between the woods and the waters of a district, 

 and need not be told how the leaves and undergrowth of the 

 woods hold back the rainfall so that it does not get to the 

 water courses as rapidly, but is fed to them slowly, and in 

 this retardation we have our trout streams, our lakes and 



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