FORESTRY WORKERS OF LOUISIANA 



Hon. Ncwlon Grain Blanchard, of Shreveport, Governor of Louisiana, 1904^1908, an Earnest and Consistent 

 Advocate of Forestry and Conservation of All Natural Resources 



1\ h-lit weight and ease of working, 

 as t tit them especially for the use in 

 t ruction which requires the largest 

 amount of \\ork. They grow princi- 

 pally under conditions that make their 

 exploitation ea\v and profitable. They 

 an- ra-ilv reproduced and arc moder- 

 <|iiick growers, and when one pine 

 i-i cut another ^liould be planted in its 

 plai hort-leaf and loblolly, 



and a^ they grow on the very poorest 

 kind of land and are of the greatest 

 value from the standpoint of national 

 economy, their reestablishment should 

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be encouraged in our different states by 

 replanting denuded pine lands. 



Our cypress, which grows principally 

 in the southern part of the state, and 

 in some of the low swamps of our north- 

 ern parishes, is of extremely slow 

 growth, but is the most lasting of all 

 wood, and under water is practically in- 

 destructible. Some of the present-day 

 giants of our cypress forests have ob- 

 tained the enormous size of forty feet 

 in circumference, and are over 3,000 

 years of age. This tree has always 

 taken a unique place among our eastern 



