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culture. The chief feature of the day, the 

 planting of trees by school children on a date 

 fixed by the governor of the state, has had an 

 important educational bearing. Provisions for 

 the observance of Arbor Day have now been 

 made in every state and territory. 



In order to provide definite and recent 

 information as to the efforts now being made 

 in various states to preserve the forests, letters 

 were addressed to the governors of a number 

 of the states, and from their replies, or from 

 replies prepared by departments of forestry, 

 the following rdsum^ of the situation in these 

 states is made: 



Colorado, as a state, has done little but pass 

 laws. It has no machinery for their enforce- 

 ment, no state forester, no office charged with 

 responsibility relating to forests, no forest pol- 

 icy. The state experiment station has begun a 

 series of cooperative experiments in tree-plant- 

 ing with landowners in various parts of the 

 state. The national government has established 

 forest reserves to the extent of nearly thirteen 

 million acres, with three forest nurseries and a 

 fourth soon to follow. Twenty thousand young 

 pines were planted in 1905, with very satisfac- 



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