AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SAVE THE FORESTS OF THE UNITED STATES 



New York Mail As matters now are, it 

 will only be a comparatively few years un- 

 til the Canadians completely control the 

 ;iaper-making industry. But that condition 



< not inevitable if this country wakens up 

 to the fact that it still has tremendous pos- 

 sibilities of forest development and that 



iir forest asset must be devekjped not only 

 .a save our paper-making industry, but to 

 keep the price of all wood, which is an 

 essential in practically every industry, at a 

 reasonable level. 



Columbus Dispatch Measures are now 

 ' efore the senate looking towards the e.s- 

 ;;iblishment of a forestry experi- 

 ment station in the upper lakes 

 region. Charles Lathrop Pack, 

 president of the American For- 

 estry Association, urges the busi- 

 ness men of the upper lake states 

 specially Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 iiid Minnesota, to get behind 

 :hese bills if they wish to see 

 .'0^000,000 acres of idle land with- 

 in their borders again put to 

 work in growing timber trees. 

 The three states named led the 

 entire country in lumber produc- 

 tion for about 40 years. But 

 they cut their wealth of trees 

 away almost without thought of 

 conservation or reforestation and 

 'iiday they are relatively unim- 

 iiortant factors in lumber pro- 

 luction. 



for reforestation is making great headway 

 and vast tracts throughout the country are 

 being restore,d as it were to a condition of 

 forestation and incidentally of game pre- 

 serves. For a hundred years there has been 

 ruthless destruction of timber in the United 

 States, and the necessary diminishing of it 

 in Europe, and the movement now for re- 

 forestation on extensive scales will afford 

 a boon to coming generations, and inci- 

 dentally this restoration will mean the re- 

 vival of so much natural beauty which has 

 been rapidly destroyed by this deforesta- 

 tion ruthless or necessary. 



mands that Georgia take due steps, by way 

 of cooperation with the national government 

 in guarding her ever more valuable forests 

 against fire. The example has been set by 

 a number of southern states, notably Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana 

 and Texas, all of whom receive allotments 

 of government funds supplementary to ap- 

 propriations of their own for this import- 

 ant purpose. Georgia took a good stride for- 

 ward in creating, last year, a state board of 

 forestry whose primary business is to inves- 

 tigate and to recommend needful measures. 



The Story tlie Forest Fire Tells 



Clinton, III., Ledger Congress next year 

 will undertake to formulate a 

 national forestry policy to save 

 a remnant of our disappearing 

 timber supply. The move comes 

 about a century late. 



Newark, O., Tribune^We read 

 that the American Forestry As- 

 sociation is now engaged in giv- 

 ing free seeds to Great Britain 

 and to France. It is to be esti- 

 mated that the gift to France will 

 reforest one hundred thousand 

 acres of destroyed forest lands. 

 Until we read this we had no notion that 

 this -\ssociaticn was engaged in this busi- 

 ness on such a gigantic scale. It will be 

 realized however, that the value to France 

 of such a gift would be difficult to estimate 

 with its tremendous areas of land devastated 

 with the French people so occupied with 

 theii absolutely essential pursuits, as to 

 prevent them procuring at once, the neces- 

 ary seeds, the value of this gift will be 

 readily seen. Then too, the need of wood 

 for purposes of war, the extra amount cut 

 for fuel in a land where the supply is all 

 too scarce, has made a dearth of timber 

 throughout the whole of the country, where 



it was untouched by the direct ravages of 



the war. A movement in the United States Atlanta Journal 'Merest prudence de- 



Illinois State Journal It is 

 quite well understood that for- 

 estry is one of our national prob- 

 lems. Its seriousness is pretty 

 well recognized throughout the 

 land. Definite movements are on 

 toot to develop public opinion for 

 a practical, sane and productive 

 program to restore timber devas- 

 tation and to insure to the fu- 

 ture a reasonable supply of lum- 

 ber. The other necessities for 

 forestation are not being lost 

 sight of, as the damages from 

 floods and soil erosion make 

 themselves clear to the naked 

 eye. A timber denuded land is 

 a lost land, unfit for habitation, 

 cultivation or the sustenance of 

 animal life. The problem must 

 be attacked on a national scale. 



Portland 



Boston Herald The chief trouble is that 

 the trees are not being renewed fast enough 

 to provide adequately for the country's fu- 

 ture requirements. Much was done to im- 

 prove the situation when, largely as a re- 

 sult of work by the American Forestry 

 Association, our national government com- 

 mitted itself to the policy of forest re;ser- 

 vation. The country-wide problem now is 

 that of reforestation; it is to the country 

 as a whole that the Federated Engineering 

 Societies look for help. And they have 

 done well in their appeal for forest re- 

 newal to stress its recreative and esthetic 

 sides. 



Huntington W. Va., Hcrald- 

 Oregonian. Dispatch KunireAs of hilltops 

 through the south, hundreds of denuded 

 mountain sides in the west, thousands of 

 acres of swamp lands, boggy river bottoms 

 and cutover areas throughout the country 

 are merely awaiting seeding and care to 

 grow again into forests. It is a vital, 

 practical measure. It needs the interest and 

 support of every citizen of the United 

 States who has imagination and love of 

 country sufficient to make him look even 

 ten years ahead. We have an American 

 Forestry Association and a Forestry Bureau 

 in the government. Neither has the public 

 interest nor support it needs. It is the task 

 of the layman to render that interest and 

 support. 



