IN WISCONSIN ON A SOUND BASIS 



Wisconsin Conservation Commission 



TN 1912 THE STATE BEGAN REPORESTIN G SOME OF ITS CUT-OVER LAND AROUND 

 TROUT LAKE. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN IN 1916, POUR YEARS AFTER PLANTING. 



down in 1915, among other 

 items of the greatest im- 

 portance to the forestry 

 cause, the court declared 

 that forestry as carried on 

 by the state was a work of 

 internal improvement, and 

 as the state constitution pro- 

 hibited such works it Hke- 

 wise prohibited forestry 

 practices by the state. 



It should be remembered 

 in this connection that in 

 1910 the State Constitution 

 had been amended so as to 

 authorize a state forest pro- 

 gram, but in a review of this 

 amendment the court de- 

 clared that it had not been 

 adopted legally and was con- 

 sequently null and void. In 

 this same decision declara- 

 tion was made that the lands 

 which had been purchased 

 for forest reserve purposes 

 could not be used primarily 

 for such purposes, but or 

 account of the fact that they 

 had become confused with 

 certain classes of government 

 grant school lands they all 

 had "the cast of school 

 lands," and were to be ad- 

 ministered accordingly. Suf- 

 fice it to say that there 

 seemed little left of the for- 

 estry program which had 

 been started about 1903 after 

 the matter had been thrashed 

 out before the Supreme 

 Court. 



At least 80% of the soil 

 of Wisconsin is suitable for 

 agricultural development. 

 The southern portion of the 

 State comprising about 15,- 

 000,000 acres, is a rich farm- 

 ing region, practically sta- 

 tionery as to cultivated areas 



from year to year. Northern Wisconsin, which embraces 20,000,000 acres, is undergoing the development of its 

 agricultural lands. It has good roads, is well provided with railroad facilities, and is completely organized into 

 town and county governmental units. There is no reason to believe that these northern counties will not follow, in 



AND THIS TAKEN IN 1922, TEN TEARS AFTER PLANTING. SHOWS THE TRANSFOB- 

 ' MATION FROM PINE BARRENS TO PINE FOREST COMPLETE. 



