AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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SAYS THE PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERICAN 



other fuels are more convenient and more 

 practical in most cases than the trusty 

 faggots from the old wood pile, but when 

 heat is needed, the man or town with 

 wood to burn need not go cold. 



Birmingham, Ala., Ledger ore.it fires 

 in the West have been the factor which 

 contributed the increase above the av- 

 erage. Still, when the total for the year 

 is contem,plated, the loss in values abso- 

 lutely destro^-ed gone, wiped out ds 

 shocking. And this sort of thing has been 

 going on for years and years and will 

 continue to go on until building materials 

 become so dear people will then begin to 

 pay more attention to constructing of less 

 inflammable materials, and of proper 

 safeguards. 



chance with the field open. Charles La- 

 throp Pack, president of the American 

 Forestry Association, says : "If the busi- 

 ness men of the Lake States want a 

 forest experiment station, and want to 

 get a start toward putting 20,000,000 acres 

 of land to work growing trees, now is the 

 time to speak." There is an opportunity 

 for Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota 

 to have such a station under federal grant. 

 All that is required is an evidence of 

 interest. 



Grand Rapids Herald For more than 

 a decade Michigan has been talking about 

 reforestation. First the talk was a mere 

 whisper. Theorists saw the end of the 

 great white pine cut and pointed to the 

 need for replanting. But nobody listened. 

 Then the pine finally disappeared, or near- 

 ly so, and reforestation commenced mak- 

 ing converts. Still there was no action 

 worthy of the name. But now there is a 



Hattiesburg, Miss., American Ohio is 

 planning to develop 200,000 acres of state 

 forest and 100,000 acres of municipal for- 

 est, starting with an appropriation of 

 $100,000. That is certainly a modest 

 enough beginning, when it is considered 

 that Ohio had originally 24,000,000 acres 

 of forests. 



Harrisburg Patriot There, will be general 

 agreement that arrest and punishment is not 

 inappropriate for persons responsible for 

 disastrous forest fires whether the act was 

 deliberate or negligent. 



Bring Back the Woods 



Forest and Stream Man has flourished 

 from time to time without one or more of 

 all the other soil 

 products, but he has 

 never prospered with- 

 out wood. The de- 

 mand for wood is 

 growing notwith- 

 standing the discov- 

 ery of substitutes, 

 while wood is dimin- 

 ishing rapidly. For- 

 ests of the future 

 must be provided by 

 the people of today. 

 Failure to do this 

 will place upon pres- 

 ent generations the 

 guilt of adding a 

 great burden to the 

 cost of living and of 

 shirking our behold- 

 en duty to civiliza- 

 tion 



-Siebel In the Knickerbocker Press. 



Milwaukee Journal 

 The cause of pub- 

 lic forestry is mak- 

 ing great headway in 

 Wisconsin. The pub- 

 lic is sensing, as nev- 

 er before, the oppor- 

 tunity to create stu- 

 pendous wealth, to 

 give a great impetus 

 to industry and pro- 

 vide employment for 



McGill In the .Atlanta Georgian. 



many thousands in woods and mills and 

 factories, as well as to rebeautify the 

 state and increase exceedingly the tour- 

 ist trade. The demand for forestry will 

 continue to grow, for more and more the 

 economic shoe will pinch and arouse people 

 to the need for action. 



Livingston, Mont., Enterprise In Sweden 

 the school teacher takes the youngsters once 

 a week into the forests near the town and 

 shows them how important the trees are. 

 Sweden is a great exporte,r of lumber. 

 Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 American Forestry Association, draws at- 

 tention to the seriousness of the problem 

 confronting us in the matter of future tim- 

 ber supplies. The lumber cut in the state 

 of New York alone has dropped almost 60 

 per cent since 1910. In addition to teach- 

 ing the childreri, the business men of the 

 country are being taken by the hand by the 

 American Forestry Association, which is 

 constantly preaching on this subject. There 

 should be no question of the nee.d of putting 

 millions of acres of idle lands to work 

 millions of acres of idle lands to work. 



McGregor, la.. Times In considering a 

 national forest policy we must consider a 

 disease. That disease is forest devastation, 

 the American Forestry Association points 

 out. Its effect is a slow sapping of na- 

 tional strength through the ste.ady exhaus- 

 tion of the national timber supply. 



Clinton, la., Advertiser Many towns in 

 Europe own a forest. Switzerland has 67 

 per cent of all her forests under town or 

 communal ownership. These forests sup- 

 port the town and pay the taxes, the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association of Washington 



