STATE NEWS 



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pany, this tower will be erected at Edison 

 on the site of the "great inventor's" big 

 iron mining property developed years ago 

 and since abandoned. The tower will be 

 the most accessible of those in the moun- 

 tain country of North Jersey, being im- 

 mediately adjacent to a well traveled public 

 road. Despite this it will command one 

 of the most beautiful and extensive vistas 

 of the North Jersey area, making it un- 

 usually attractive for the pleasure-seeker as 

 well as valuable for its primary protective 

 purpose. 



A careful estimation of the two million 

 acres of woodland within the State places 

 their present value at not over $6,000,000. 

 State Forester Alfred Gaskill asserts that 

 by checking abuse through fire, waste and 

 neglect, and by putting the woodlands 

 under practical forestry management, they 

 can be developed into property conserva- 

 tively valued at $200,000,000. While the 

 people of the State are now importing 

 twenty times as much timber as our for- 

 ests produce, a large portion of future 

 demands could then be supplied with local 

 timber. To bring about these better con- 

 ditions is the aim of the Department of 

 Conservation and Development. To this 

 end the State Forester is making a survey 

 of present progress. Blank information 

 sheets have been sent out to all persons 

 who have indicated an active interest in 

 the past. Anyone in New Jersey who has 

 been engaged in the practice of forestry 

 in any way can help greatly by informing 

 the State Forester at Trenton of work 



done and results obtained, and by giving 

 suggestions. The amount of active co- 

 operation from forest owners determines 

 to a large degree whether 45 per cent of 

 the State's area shall be "despised waste 

 land" or a highly productive woodland to 

 be enjoyed by all. 



WISCONSIN 



'"PHAT the work of the conservation com- 

 mission in encouraging planting of 

 forest trees on farm woodlots, estates and 

 idle and waste land in Wisconsin is pro- 

 gressing favorably, is evidenced by the fact 

 that during the last five years approxi- 

 mately 800,000 trees have been planted by 

 citizens of this state. This work takes 

 on an added significance this year. 



The campaign to make Wisconsin in- 

 creasingly beautiful, initiated by passage 

 of the rural planning law in 1919 and the 

 subsequent organization of rural planning 

 committees in the counties draws atten- 

 tion to the fact that tree planting and tree 

 conservation along highways, lake front- 

 ages and water courses is of first im- 

 portance. 



growth is dense, close together, the trees 

 will not do well. A tree standing alone 

 grows to limb, is short and produces lit- 

 tle or no lumber of value. If close to- 

 gether, trees grow tall, have few limbs 

 and one tree will make several saw logs 

 and produce much clear stuff lumber. 



"A natural forest in the Adirondacks," 

 he continues, "may produce if good, eight 

 thousand board feet of lumber to the acre, 

 sometimes more, sometimes less. A plant- 

 ed forest of pine, when mature, will pro- 

 duce from 50 to 80 thousand board feet 

 of lumber on an acre. Therefore, we must 

 plant forests." 



PLANTED FORESTS 

 'T'HERE is a great advantage in 

 planted forests over natural forests," 

 says James S. Whipple, former State For- 

 ester of New York State, in a recent bulle- 

 tin. "Density of forest growth is all im- 

 portant. That can be obtained in uni- 

 formity only by planting. Unless the 



MORE GRAZING IN NATIONAL 

 FORESTS 



'T'HE demand for range on the National 

 Forests was greater the past year than 

 ever before in the history of the Forest 

 Service, which branch of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture has control of 

 these tracts. Especially in the drought- 

 stricken regions, stockmen, using the un- 

 reserved public domain or private pastures, 

 eagerly sought forest permits in order to 

 save their stock. The value of the system 

 of range regulation in use has been so 

 thoroughly demonstrated that representa- 

 tive stockmen from all the western States 

 have declared emphatically in favor of 

 placing the remaining unreserved public 

 lands under Federal control and having 

 them managed under a plan similar to 

 that in effect on the National Forests. 



N-SAWS 



