The Immediate Forestry Needs of the State 



The recommendations of the Forestry Board as they 

 appear in the Board's report to the governor are a 

 very good indication of the things which are needed 

 in the state to advance the cause of forestry, which 

 in turn means the advancement of the state welfare 

 in so far as it is dependent on its forest resources. 

 We have had an abundance of forest products for so 

 long and have become so accustomed to speak of 

 ourselves as a great lumber producing state that it 

 is doubtful if very many of us realize how tremend- 

 ously our lumber production has fallen off of late 

 years or how very much that falling off is affecting 

 the prosperity of the state as a whole. 



It is not merely a question of a few big lumbermen 

 working themselves out of a very profitable business. 

 They can doubtless find some other way of employ- 

 ing their money to advantage. But it means the fail- 

 ure of a source of employment for 50,000 01 100,000 

 men. It means the cramping, if not the suppression 

 of hundreds of wood working industries. It means 

 the loss of thousands of dollars in taxes and the ex- 

 penditure of other hundreds of thousands in freight 

 charges to bring in the lumber products from the 

 Pacific coast. It means, unless we get busy at once, 

 the idleness and degeneration of millions of acres of 

 land. It means a halt in the development of about 

 half the northern half of the state. 



Read these carefully to work for their fulfillment. 



Recomendations 

 (1) The last legislature slightly increased the ap- 



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