perience shows that the eradication can be done at a 

 reasonable cost. This makes the protection of the 

 valuable white pine timber in the state a forestry 

 problem which should be handled by the Forestry 

 Board. 



Arrangements have been made for cooperation with 

 the State Entomologist, who now has the state funds 

 for this work, and the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, for carrying on the protective work on the state 

 parks and other valuable timber lands through the 

 present biennium, but the next legislature should be 

 asked to furnish the Forestry Board with funds for 

 handling the work in the future. In addition to the 

 parks which should be protected at any cost there are 

 thousands of acres of young white pine which it 

 will pay to save. 



(8) The war has seriously interfered with the 

 tree planting policy of the Board. We are falling 

 behind other states in this important branch of the 

 work. A comprehensive planting policy should be 

 worked out and the money provided to push it 

 through. There are thousands of acres on which there 

 is already natural young growth, but there are still 

 other thousands which have been so badly burned 

 over and mistreated that nothing but planting ran 

 bring them back to productiveness. The longer this 

 planting is put off the harder and more expensive it 

 will be. 



(9) There was a remarkable increase in tourist 

 travel to the north woods last summer. Itasca Park 

 and all the other resorts were filled to capacity and 



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