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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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WOMEN CALLED TO ENLIST IN FIGHT TO 



New York Telegram "Westward the storation of forests in the devastated war the name Hough, p-ranklin B. Hough? Most 



course of empire took her way some time areas of France and the tracts of forests hkely you do not for he was born loo years 



ago, and the history of the lumber in- cut down in England for war purposes. ago, July 20, at Martinsburgh, Lewis county, 



dustry shows it followed the same trail. Unless we in America stop destroying our N. Y. Few will remember the name yet 



The movement has been from the East forests, our country in another generation he has as unique a monument as any man 



to the Lake States, to the South and thence 

 to <he Pacific Coast," says the Boston 

 Post. "This is the last stronghold. All 

 this has come to pass in two generations. 

 At present we have enough remaining tim- 

 ber to last perhaps two generations more, 

 according to the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. Thereafter we will have to depend 

 for supplies upon home grown products. 



"We have the forest land, we can keep 

 it producing trees, we can re- 

 plant such areas as are denuded. 

 There are about eighty-one mil- 

 lion acres of suitable land idle, 

 Charles Lathrop Pack, president 

 of the Association says. If we 

 do not delay in adopting a pro- 

 per forest policy, we can assure 

 by the practice of forestry the 

 future of the American lumber 

 supply. There is no other way. 



"A treeless United States 

 would eventually mean a sterile 

 United States through the grad- 

 ual drying up of rivers and oth- 

 er water ways, the arteries of 

 fertility." 



Isn't this something for us, 

 everyone of us, to think about? 

 Woman with her vote can make 

 it count in the preservation of 

 our forests. And every woman 

 who has ground can dedicate 

 a corner to the planting of a tree. 



may be as lacking in forests as France. 

 The area of forest land swept by fire each 

 year is about twice the area cut over an- 

 nually by logging crews. With a little 

 common sense, Americans would raise a 

 yearly crop of trees, just as they raise 

 wheat, corn, cotton, etc. 



Grand Rapids Herald The 

 American Forestry Association 

 has presented fir seeds to the 

 French government to aid in 

 the reforestation of territory de- 



born in the last century, for Hough is the 

 man who, after years of struggle, got the 

 government to start a forestry bureau. 



His centennial year is also the semi cen- 

 tennial of the first Arbor Day, J. Sterling 

 Morton having started that in Nebraska in 

 1872. Rothrock, the dean of forestry has 



just died and now Charles Lathrop Pack, 



New Rochelle Standard The planting of president of the American Forestry .'Vssoci- 

 memorial trees is not an uncommon thing ation is carrying on a campaign of education 



on a scale such as those three 

 Looks Like No Forest Policy Means No Lumber old timers never dreamed of. Im- 

 portance of forestry between the 

 time of Hough and Pack is seen 

 in the fact that Congress ap- 

 propriated $3,000 for Hough to 

 start with. That would not pay 

 the annual postage of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association today. 

 If you do not think the work 

 Hough started and Pack is car- 

 rying on to interest the people in 

 forest protection is far-reaching, 

 try to name something into which [ 

 the cost of forest products does 

 not enter. This paper you are 

 reading, the chair you are sitting 

 in, the house you would like to 

 build, the desk your child uses 

 in school, your pencil, your golf 

 club, the box in which came the 

 peas the wife bought this morn- 

 ing ^but why continue? 



We must begin producing trees 

 on a wholesale scale. Hough saw 

 the trees were dwindling when 

 he handled the census of the 

 state of New' York away back in 

 1855. If something is not done 

 we may find ourselves where he 



Tampa Tribune. 



since the war. There are parks and bou'.e- said we would be in 1955. A national for- 



nuded by battle. This will plant 30,000 acres 



and will go a long way toward providing vards in many cities which have been thus est policy is one thing this country needs 



a future supply of fir timber for France. 

 France lost some of her timber because of 

 attack by German shells, but the U"'t<^d 

 States lost much more through inroads of 

 the ax. France has an excuse for her pres- 

 ent plight. The United States has no excuse. 

 France has had her denuded battlefields only 

 four years. Michigan has had thousands 

 upon thousands of waste acres for a gen- 

 eration. It's about time we started on a 

 serious basis. 



Pottstovm News Millions of tree seeds 

 have been given to France and Great Britain 

 by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 American Forestry Association, for the re- 



graced in memory of some of America's 

 war dead. There is little need to go into 

 the advantages of such a memorial. There 

 are vast areas of unimproved land suitable 

 only for tree planting. There are miles of 

 shadeless highways which cry aloud for 

 road-side beautification. If every county in 

 the United States could, some day, have a 

 memorial forest, the problem of forest con- 

 servation would practically cease to exist, 

 and the nation would possess a chain of 

 noble monuments of lasting and perfect 

 beauty. 



Florida Farm and Live Stock Record 

 Forests are wealth. Four-fifths of the 

 South's virgin timber is gone, according to 

 Ovid M. Butler, forester of the American 

 Forestry Association. Southern mills dom- 

 inated the great northern lumber markets 

 for a score of years, by reason of their 

 proximity to those markets and of the de- 

 sirability of our yellow pine lumber. The 

 naval stores industry must vanish if the 

 pine forests disappear. And Florida furn- 

 ishes the greater part of the naval stores 



Washington Herald Do you remember of the country. 



