tains a Bureau of Forestry to study forest problems 

 and give skilled assistance to forest planters and 

 owners, and help take care of the trees. 



Why The Forests Of Minnesota Should 

 Be Preserved. 



BY FAITH RANDALL, 

 Comfrey, Minn. 



"One impulse from a vernal wood 

 Will teach you more of man, 

 Of moral evil and of good, 

 Than all the sages can." 



From "The North Woods." 



We should reserve and reforest the forests of Min- 

 nesota because of the large areas of sandy land in 

 the northern part of Minnesota, 

 which will grow trees and timbers, 

 while crops cannot be raised profit- 

 ably. 



We should reserve the forest be- 

 cause of the wealth. The different 

 trees such as the pine, hemlock, oak, 

 elm, birch and ash are very valu- 

 able for industrial purposes. Wood 

 is cheaper to burn than coal. The 

 hickory burns evenly and holds the 

 heat, then comes the oak, birch and maple. 



Minnesota, in 1890, stood first in the world in pro- 

 ducing the most lumber, but now stands twelfth be- 

 cause of the reckless cutting of the timber and the 

 great forest fires. Men who have seen the reckless 

 destruction of timber, say that if Minnesota is not 



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