AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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NATIONAL FORESTS IN GREAT 

 BRITAIN 



??T ORD LOVAT gave me an interesting 

 account of the purchasing and de- 

 veloping of the National Forests in Bri- 

 tain," writes Miss Emily Exley, who is well 

 known as a landscape artist in Phila- 

 delphia, and who visited England last 

 summer to learn at first hand of conditions 

 and possibilities there. She continues: 

 "At the outbreak of war National Forests 

 did not exist in Britain. About 98 per cent 

 of all woodlands were privately owned, 

 with about 2 per cent owned by the King, 

 known as Crown Lands. In 1919 the 

 British Government made an appropriation 

 of 3,500,000 pounds to be expended over a 

 period of ten years to buy and establish 

 the National Forests, and in that same year 

 about 500 acres had been bought and plant- 

 ed. The kinds of trees most generally 

 used were the oak, ash, and beech in hard- 

 woods and Norway spruce, Douglas fir, 

 Japanese larch, thuga gigantia and Scotch 

 firs in the evergreens. Lord Lovat also 

 told me of the establishment of the For- 

 estry Commission in Britain and the work 

 they are planning to do on educational lines 

 and the re-establishment of forests in 

 Britain. A systematic scheme of education 

 is felt to be the primary duty of all for- 

 estry authorities throughout the Empire." 

 Miss Exley also said that the Roads of 

 Remembrance Association of Great Britain 

 was very pleased with the sample tree 

 marker used by the American Forestry 

 Association in marking memorial trees. 



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"DEFORESTATION of state forests to 

 take the place of the natural growth that 

 has been removed by the lumber industries 

 and farm development, is strongly urged 

 by General C. C. Andrews, a pioneer in 

 forestry and the only one of Minnesota's 

 22 colonels in the Civil War now living. 



He stresses the need of new forest 

 growth and. in an interview to the Duluth 

 flews Tribune, said: 



"While there is still much pine timber 

 of natural growth in Minnesota and al- 

 ways will be, the greater part has been re- 

 moved. Under the amendment to the con- 

 stitution adopted in 1914 about 300,000 acres 

 of the state's public land have been set 

 apart as state forest. Of the state's re- 

 maining public land perhaps twice as much 

 more will be so set apart. Most of the 

 timber on the land, however, has been 

 sold or soon will be. and removed. 



"To have state forests on a proper scale 

 our state must buy third and fourth rate 

 land and plant it with pine as rapidly as 

 the work can be done in a business like 

 way. Only about five per cent of the area 

 of cut-over pine land that is third or fourth 

 rate, will be found well restocked with 

 valuable kinds of trees, by natural growth. 

 The bare part should be planted with three 

 or four year old nursery grown pines. To 

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