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more stable farming because growing timber on the tim- 

 ber soils will hasten and stabilize the development of the 

 farm soils. The timber industries will create local 

 markets and will give the pioneer fanner employment 

 during long winter months and in lean years. We will 

 gain stability such as we have not had. The income will 

 be continuous. The labor will be permanent and not 

 itinerant. There will be no boom development of towns 

 to be left as an economic waste when the timber is cut 

 out. All this, provided we recognize what we have and 

 give these timber lands the measure of care and fire pro- 

 tection which the producing power of the soil and the 

 present and future needs of the region warrant. 



Summing it up, we find that the cut-over areas are not 

 a barren waste, but are really producing something of 

 both actual and potential value. The factor causing the 

 apparently slrw growth is largely repeated burning which 



can and must be reduced to a minimum. Planting should 

 be done to produce certain species and certain classes of 

 material, but the amount needed is relatively small. Long 

 before most of these young stands have reached a mer- 

 chantable size, the depletion of timber in other parts of 

 the country will have created a market for all raw ma- 

 terials we are producing. The dark cloud is not so dark 

 after all. It has a silver lining if the people of Minne- 

 sota will but lift up their eyes and look. For in this 

 young timber some of it so young that the eye of the 

 average traveler fails to catch it there are two great 

 things. One is the utilization of poor land which would 

 otherwise lie idle and barren. The second is a potential 

 harvest bringing with it permanent industries, stable em- 

 ployment and general prosperity. Young timber today is 

 our wood and paper of tomorrow. Let us protect it. 



Pennsylvania Selects Forester For Governor 



r^ IFFORD PINCHOT, forester, is the newly elected 

 ^^ Governor of Pennsylvania. By an overwhelming 

 vote the people of the State bestowed the highest oflSce 

 of the Commonwealth upon their former Commissioner 

 of Forestry and thus expressed their confidence in his 

 abilities and his high ideals of public service. At the 

 time this issue of American Forestry went to press, 

 unofficial returns placed Mr. Pinchot's majority at 

 300,000. 



Mr. Pinchot's career as a conservationist and public 

 servant is too well known to need review. Ever since 

 he reorganized the United States Forest Service during 



Roosevelt's administration and made it one of the most 

 efficient and highly effective organizations in the gov- 

 ernment, his name has been before the public eye as 

 an independent and fearless fighter on the side of pub- 

 lic interests. Like all strong leaders, Mr. Pinchot has 

 enemies, but that they are in the small minority is 

 definitely shown by the vote given him in the recent 

 election in his own State, where during 1920 and 1921, 

 as Commissioner of Forestry of Pennsylvania, he re- 

 organized the State Department of Forestry and estab- 

 lished a record of accomplishment unparelleled in the 

 history of State forestry in America. 



Mickigan^s Land Survey 



(Continued From Page 748) 



the trading of non-agricultural land if the land owner 

 could see the value of timber as compared to unsuccessful 

 settlers. He would also be much more likely to enter a 

 plan for certification and State endorsement of the agri- 

 cultural land if we had a practical plan for reforesting 

 the non-agricultural land. The importance of this phase 

 of the land settlement policy should not be underesti- 

 mated. It may be the incentive toward private reforesta- 

 tion which other States have lacked." 



Michigan's plan sets a standard of leadership which 

 other States may well emulate. It is sound in principle. 

 Its success will depend upon the manner in which the 

 survey is carried through and the information used. So 



far as forest interests go, the mere designation of non- 

 agricultural or true forest land will not suffice. The sur- 

 vey must point the way to the utilization of those lands 

 for the growing of timber by adequate fire protection, 

 fair taxation and a comprehensive State Forest policy. 

 It must be a real economic classification of land with 

 provisions for re-examinations from time to time of 

 present uncertain areas in order to meet changing eco- 

 nomic conditions. On that basis, it will stand as an 

 enduring monument to those who conceived it and it 

 should put forestry in proper relation with agriculture 

 and other State interests. 



Tlie Road To Wisconsin's Greater Outdoors 



(Continued from page 733) 



IS quite inclusive. It is based upon consideration of 

 things which are essential, not only in themselves, but 

 in relation to one another. Forestry, natural parks, 

 wild life refuges, game preserves and conservation of 

 fishing, hunting and opportunities for recreation in the 

 woods and on inland lakes are not separate and indi- 

 vidual undertakings. They interlock and are an in- 

 herent part of Wisconsin's forest program. All of 

 them, moreover, are necessary to building up the 



tourist trade, which constitutes one of Wisconsin's great 

 opportunities, and the tourist trade, in turn, is the one 

 way to make highways which have cost huge sums 

 pay dividends, indirect dividends of course, but never- 

 theless very real dividends. 



In the Wisconsin program the importance of all 

 these things is recognized, but their .relative importance 

 is carefully considered. The supreme importance of 

 state forestry must always be before the public eye. 



