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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



The Coast 

 Redwoods. 



Now may be seen clearly whither tends 

 this fatal connection of cause and effect 

 which begins with the destruction of the 

 forest, and ends in the miseries of the 

 population: dooming thus the man to 

 share the ruin of the soil which he has de- 

 vastated. SurelL 



J* 



"Prof. C.S.Sargent 

 of the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has just written a letter to Mr. Ed- 

 ward T. Potter, a trustee of the Society for 

 the Preservation of Scenic and Historic 

 Places and Objects, calling attention to 

 the danger threatening another class of 

 great trees on the Pacific Coast. He says 

 that there are two kinds of great trees in 

 California, Sequoia Wcllingtonia, or Big 

 Tree of the western slopes of the Sierra 

 Nevada and the Redwood of the coast. 

 Assuming that the Sierra Sequoias will be 

 saved, he continues : 



" The future of the Redwoods of the 

 coast gives cause for greater anxiety. This 

 is a tree second in trunk diameter only to 

 the Sierra Sequoia. It is a much taller 

 tree, the tallest of all North American 

 trees, and probably taller than any of the 

 Australian Eucalypti, which have usually 

 been considered the tallest trees in the 

 world. To my mind, the Redwood is a 

 1 1 inre beautiful tree than the Mountain 

 Sequoia, although I cannot get Mr. John 

 Muir to agree to this, and it is economic- 

 ally more valuable. The Redwood ex- 

 tends, or did extend, in a maritime belt 

 In >m the southern borders of Oregon 

 southward to Monterey County, Calif. 

 The whole of the land covered by this 

 tree has been allowed to pass from the 

 control of the Government, and a few 

 \ears, fifty perhaps, will see the destruc- 

 tion of the original Redwood forests. 



Four years ago, when I was serving on 

 a Government commission to study the 

 western forests, I made a special trip 

 through the Redwood belt in company 

 with Gen, Abbott and Mr. Muir, in the 

 hope of being able to find a tract belong- 

 in- to the Government, but we were un- 

 able to find a single acre that had not 

 passed from Government control. What 



ought to be done for the credit of Amer. 

 ica and American civilization is to pur- 

 chase, through act of Congress or by in- 

 dividual effort, a block of a few thousand 

 acres of this forest with the idea of pre- 

 serving it for all time. It is doubtful if 

 the Government can be got to do this, but 

 possibly some rich man or men can be 

 found glad to immortalize themselves by 

 saving from destruction one of the great 

 marvels of the world, for this Redwood 

 forest is the most stupendous and produc- 

 tive forest that exists. Unless a Redwood 

 reservation is made, all trace of the orig- 

 inal Redwood forest will disappear before 

 the end of the next century."- New York 

 Evening Post, July 25. 



A Lumberman's 

 View. 



Under this title the 

 Michigan Forestry 

 Commission prints the 

 following in a pamphlet entitled A Little 

 Talk About Michigan Forestry : 



" Mr. Edward Lowe, who is connected 

 with a firm having large forest interests 

 and carrying on lumbering in an extensive 

 way, in a recent interview deplored the 

 wasteful methods of lumbering and the 

 totallack of thoughtfulness on the part of 

 citizens and officials having in charge the 

 affairs of the State. He has traveled exten 

 sively, and finds in no other country such 

 an entire lack of thoughtfulness with re- 

 gard to economical forestry as is displayed 

 in this country and especially in our own 

 State. He thinks the State cannot take 

 hold of the matter of forestry too quickly 

 and work out a plan that shall have in 

 view the utilization of lands that are now 

 entirely a waste, and by judicious manage- 

 ment based upon the experience of other 

 nations, create upon these same lands a leg- 

 acy of wealth for future generations in our 

 State. He would like to see lumbermen 

 beginning to discuss more economical 

 methods of manufacturing lumber, and 

 conserving the young growth upon lands 

 that are cut over. He believes there should 

 be a united effort on the part of land own- 

 ers and lumbermen to secure such legisla- 

 tion as will stimulate the investment of 

 money in lands used for growing timber." 





