AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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OMEN, SAYS WASHINGTON HERALD 



gressional advocate for vast extensions 

 tq the network of highways that are even- 

 tually to make these reserves accessible to 

 the American people. Mr. Woodruff's plan 

 calls for the expenditure of lo millions a 

 year in building roads and trails, an invest- 

 ment which means better fir* protection to 

 the tremendous forest assets, more prac- 

 ticable marketing facilities for timber and 

 more health and pleasure for the thous- 

 ands who will spend vacations in the wood- 

 ed places. 



The people have long been indifferent 

 to the destruction of the forests, and this 

 apathy is not yet a thing of the past; but 

 there is a growing ap- 

 preciation of the mate- 

 rial and cultural value 

 of them that promises 

 well for forest protec- 

 tion and recreational use 

 of forests. 



Berkeley, California, 

 Gazette : The American 

 Forestry Association re- 

 ports that the planting 

 of memorial trees is go- 

 ing to break all records. 

 The first big planting 

 has been at South Bend, 

 Ind., where the women 

 of the county set out 

 trees for all their soldier 

 dead along the Lincoln 

 Highway. It is a no- 

 ble cause. In fact, it is 

 two noble causes in one 

 Every soldier who laid 

 down his life for his 

 country deserves some 

 such living memorial, 

 which literally keeps his 

 memory green. And 

 every tree is more than a 

 monument, benefitting 

 the living while it honors 

 the dead. 



Nonualk, Connecticut, 

 Evening Hour. Large 

 numbers of trees have 

 been planted in the past 

 few years as memorials 

 to the soldiers who gave 

 up their lives in the 

 World War. The idea 

 is an excellent one and 

 from the statement of 

 the American Forestry 

 Association to the effect 

 that a large number were 

 to be set out along the 

 Lincoln Msmorial High- 

 way with the same object in mind it can be 

 appreciated that the plan has made a fav- 

 orable impression and that it is by no means 

 too late to put it into effect. 



Troy, New York Titnes : Charles La- 

 throp Pack, President of the American For- 

 estry Association, who has long been iden- 

 tified with forestry, good roads and the 

 conservation of national resources, makes 

 an interesting statement with reference to 

 the development of a campaign for memo- 

 rial tree-planting. This, he says, has spread 

 until it includes "roads of remembrance" 

 and memorial parks in hundreds of places. 



The memorial highway and memorial 

 tree idea deserves hearty support and earn- 

 est cooperation by all who appreciate the 

 significance of the movement. Great routes 

 of travel, like the Lincoln Highway, the 



SINCE WE ARE CUTTING DOWN OUR TIMBER EACH YEAR 

 SIX TIMES AS FAST AS IT CAN GROW AND IT TAKES 300 

 YEARS TO GROW A GOOD SAW LOG 



ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME FOR US TO PLANT THE TREES FOR 

 OUR GREAT, GREAT, ETC., GRANDSON'S BUNGALOW? Dar/ing, 

 in the tVashlnglon Herald. 



Roosevelt Highway, the National Highway, 

 the Dixie Highway, the Jefferson Highway 

 and various other roads and trails are al- 

 ready realities, and memorial tree planting 



would add to their beauty and attractive- 

 ness and serve as tributes to those who de- 

 serve such recognition. There would be pe- 

 culiar appropriateness, for instance, in 

 placing trees along the Roosevelt Highway 

 and so expressing something of the spirit 

 of a great American who was pre-eminently 

 a lover of nature and of outdoor life. A 

 highway lined with fine trees provides pe- 

 culiar pleasure to every traveler, and me- 

 morial trees furnish reminders of eminent 

 American men and women and thus be- 

 come invaluable object lessons. Build more 

 memorial highways and continue the plant- 

 ing of memorial trees. 



Butler, (Pa.,) Citizen : 

 A new scheme for me- 

 morials which should ap- 

 peal to everyone is gain- 

 ing in favor all over the 

 country and threatens at 

 some time in the near 

 future to become a near- 

 ly national movement. 

 It is the "Roads of Re- 

 membrance" idea which 

 was originated by the 

 American Forestry As- 

 sociation. As the auto- 

 mobile becomes more 

 and more the method of 

 business and pleasure 

 travel, so will the de- 

 mand for these beauti- 

 ful roads mount higher 

 and higher. Good roads 

 are not the only demand 

 of the present day ; 

 beautiful roads are also 

 des'ired. Fine trees lin- 

 ing a highway increase 

 the pleasure of an auto- 

 mobile trip and lessen 

 the arduousness of a 

 business trip. 



DeKalb, (III.,) Chron- 

 icle : Not only as a fit- 

 ting memorial to those 

 who died in the recent 

 war, but also to beautify 

 our highways, nothing 

 could be done at a 

 smaller cost to our coun- 

 ty, than the planting of 

 trees along the country 

 roads. Nothing adds so 

 much to the beauty of a 

 road or so favorably im- 

 presses a visitor. 



New Haven Register: 

 One of the wisest things 

 Governor Lake has done 

 in his public service is to recommend the 

 adoption by the state of the plan of tree me- 

 morials for the soldier dead in place of the 

 proposal of stone markers on the highways. 



