fire is of a harmful nature, immediate action will be 

 taken to put it out. 



Each year the trees are having better protection 

 so that they will have the best possible advantage in 

 growing because it takes about fifty years to mature 

 a pine tree. Fire can spread thus endangering many 

 lives of people and the lives of the trees. 



The big object of managing replanted trees is to 

 secure the best possible protection in summer and 

 winter. 



Why Should Trees And Forests Be Planted And 

 Protected In Minnesota? 



BY FLORENCE MELANSON, 

 Duquette, Minn. 



This question is very interesting to us at present as 

 there are three very good reasons for our being anx- 

 ious about our forests and their products. 



One reason is that people have not been careful 

 as to what timber they cut. They have cut young, 

 unripe timber, too small to be of efficient use and 

 necessitating a great deal of waste. 



Another reason is that a great deal of timber has 

 been destroyed by forest fires. Sparks from railway 

 locomotives, or fires left carelessly by picnickers have 

 destroyed thousands of feet of large ripe valuable 

 timber, also a vast amount of small timber with great 

 future value. 



A third reason is that much timber has been used 

 for the war and much valuable timber has been de- 

 stroyed in Europe during the war. 



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