722 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



STRUNG ALONG THE SHIFTING BED OF A GKEAT PRE-GLACIAL RIVER AND SEPA- 

 RATED HERE AND THERE BY ROLLING MORAINES LIES A CHAIN OF SPRING-FED 

 LAKES, FOURTEEN IN ALL, EACH A GEM IN ITS OWN RIGHT. TRAILS, MANY OF 

 THEM FIRST WORN BY THE RED MEN. RISK AND DIP AND WIND IN ALL DIRECTIONS. 



forested lake and river region, 

 situated in central upper Wis- 

 consin, and known as the 

 Northern Lakes Park. 



Of the details of that work 

 it is not yet time to tell. It is 

 a pioneer movement in our 

 State, the entering wedge for 

 better things to come. Once 

 become the property of the 

 State and opened up for use, 

 the multitudes who pleasure 

 there, healing the wounds of 

 city strain and farm, will be 

 quickened in their love for the 

 forests the real forests which 

 the great majority have never 

 seen and, learning what for- 

 ests mean to us, will be tight- 

 ened in the determination that 

 Wisconsin shall no longer lag 

 behind her sisters to the east 

 and west in tackling the forest 

 renewal problem, and, knowing 

 that the job should and must 

 be done, in doing it well. 



To date forestry in Wiscon- 

 sin has been marking time. It 

 took the automobile, and the 

 highways it opened and im- 

 proved, to bring to us from the 

 lower states a first apprecia- 

 tion of the value of our timb- 

 ered shore lines. With thou- 

 sands of lakes, whose frontage 

 exceeds in total mileage our 

 Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, 

 we, of the Lake States, are 

 awakening to the future, as 

 well as present, value of our 

 northland as the playground for 

 half a nation. A realization of 

 the occasional need of escape 

 from the growing stress of 

 modern life, to the health giv- 

 ing freedom and recreation of 

 the open, is unlocking the door, 

 where the eye for the profits 

 of the moment had left it 

 closed, showing us the way to 

 an annual, permanent return, en- 

 tirely legitimate and to the 

 larger profit of all concerned. 



And in this natural park this 

 unniarred bit of the north our 

 fathers won, where age-old 

 trees rank all horizons and 



