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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



plan that has come to my attention and perhaps it is for 

 this reason that it has attracted considerable attention in 

 forestry circles, especially in forestry schools. An out- 

 line of these may be timely. The Journal's plan is based 

 largely on man's natural love of trees. It aims to 

 strengthen and crystallize 

 this feeling. It advocates 

 close care of shade trees in 

 cities and the planting of 

 native trees along the coun- 

 try highways. It urges 

 the establishment of com- 

 munity and county and 

 state parks in regions of 

 virgin timber and lakes 

 and streams. It preaches 

 the doctrine of community 

 forests. It emphasizes the 

 necessity of planting trees 

 along the shores of Wis- 

 consin's lakes and rivers, 

 shores now bare to the ex- 

 tent of hundreds of miles. 

 More than all else, how- 

 ever, it points out the need 

 for a broad, comprehen- 

 sive system of state for- 

 estry. It does not hesitate 

 to assert that there are 

 fully three million acres of 

 non-farming land in Wis- 

 consin and that the state 

 should buy this land and 

 reforest it. It steadily calls 

 attention to the relation of 

 these enterprises to one 

 another and of all of them 

 to the development of the 

 tourist trade, to drawing 

 dividends from a state 



WOLF RIVER DELLS 



It is for the preservation of such beauty spots as this that the 

 author is so ably arousing sentiment in Wisconsin. 



highways system that has cost the taxpayers many mil- 

 lions of dollars, and to the importance of forest growth 

 in fostering fishing and hunting. The chiel goal in view 

 is always the practice of state forestry on an adequate 

 scale. All these other things are urged, not only because 

 they are valuable in themselves, but because they are es- 

 sential to the progress of forestry. It is forestry, state 

 forestry, that constitutes the backbone of the program. 



To this program, which is nothing more nor less than 

 a plan for the utmost development of the natural re- 

 sources of Wisconsin, The Journal devotes considerably 

 more than a column a day, on an average. Once a week 

 all these articles are printed in a bulletin the size of an 

 eight-column newspaper page and these bulletins are 

 sent to every newspaper in the state, to all the women's 

 clubs, to community advancement associations and cham- 

 bers of commerce, to Rotary and Kiwanis clubs and the 

 like and to the rod and gun clubs of the state. This 

 means that forestry literature reaches every community 



in the state every week. Among organizations of men 

 and among women's clubs it has stimulated interest in 

 forestry and in other features of what may be called a 

 constructive out-of-door program. 



After everything is said and considered, however, the 



chief feature of this plan, 

 the chief value of it, is in 

 arousing the interest of the 

 state press, and thus 

 spreading the gospel of 

 forestry in every nook and 

 comer. For going, as it 

 does from one newspaper 

 to other newspapers, it re- 

 ceives a warm welcome 

 from the average editor.' 

 This is the new idea that 

 the plan embodies. Speak- 

 ing generally, the editors 

 of Wisconsin realize that 

 The Journal is working in 

 an earnest and unselfish 

 manner to advance the in- 

 terests of the state. They 

 are asked to cooperate in 

 this work, not only in the 

 interest of the state, but in 

 the interest of their com- 

 munity and of themselves, 

 and the result is that to the 

 extent of many columns 

 The Journal's articles on 

 forestry and allied subjects 

 are reprinted in the state 

 papers every week. There 

 is being built up in Wis- 

 consin, as a consequence, a 

 sentiment in favor of state 

 forestry which, in my 

 opinion, will be irresistible. 

 It was this sentiment, already partly aroused, which in- 

 duced the last state legislature to initiate a constitutional 

 amendment designed to give the state full power to en- 

 gage in growing timber as a business. It will be neces- 

 sary for the next legislature to approve the measure. I 

 have no doubt that it will do this. Nor is there any 

 doubt in my mind that the people will ratify the amend- 

 ment when it is submitted to them at the polls. Then the 

 decks will have been cleared for definite action. 



In several other ways which have proven effective The 

 Journal is engaged in promoting the cause of forestry in 

 particular and its out-of-door program in general. Some 

 eighteen months ago it prepared, printed and distributed 

 in widespread fashion, free of charge, a booklet entitled 

 "Put Idle Acres to Work." This contained a state forestry 

 program which it formulated, articles advocating fores- 

 try and written for it by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of 

 the United States forestry service; Charles Lathrop 

 Pack, president of the American Forestry Association; 



