forestry possibilities of the state. The red does not 

 cover all the forest land in the state by any means, 

 but we can be pretty sure that on the conservative 

 basis of these maps all the red land should be forest. 



A careful analysis of the distribution of these red 

 patches is extremely interesting. The man in the 

 southern half of the state who has always regarded 

 the forests as something peculiar to the north, and 

 hence of little more than academic interest to him, 

 suddenly finds himself involved in a by no means 

 insignificant forestry problem right in his own 

 neighborhood. 



These lands are located in rather narrow strips 

 along the water course of the Mississippi river and 

 its tributaries, of which the most important are the 

 St. Croix, the White Water, the Cannon, the Zumbro, 

 the Root, the Minnesota, and the numerous creeks 

 which flow into them. 748,000 acres in the Mississip- 

 pi watershed, and two branches of the Missouri con- 

 tribute 33,000 acres more in Rock and Pipestone 

 Counties. This is a vast area of land in the aggre- 

 gate. The watershed of the St. Louis river in the 

 north boasts only a seventh as much, and the famous 

 granite country in the triangle north of lake Superior 

 has only three times as much. 



By river systems the statistics are : 



Mississippi River System 780,954 acres 



St. Louis River System 106,689 acres 



North of Lake Superior 2,235,427 acres 



Total 3,123,070 acres 



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