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Recent Progress 

 in Minnesota. 



Vol. VI. 



NOVEMBER, 1900. 



No. ii. 



In this issue of the FORES- 



Regarding the anne ar four articles 



White Pine North. J 



which deal with the prob- 

 lems of the White Pine regions in Michi- 

 gan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In these 

 states forestry is much needed, but before 

 it can be practised to any extent a great 

 deal of legislation will be necessary. Some 

 laws now on the statute books are such as 

 to discourage, not to facilitate the main- 

 tenance of the forests. These must be re- 

 pealed or amended and new ones must be 

 passed. The public must be educated to 

 a sense of the needs of the case in order 

 that timber stealing and fires may be 

 checked. In these three States the details 

 of the difficulties which Forestry Com- 

 missions and Associations are thus trying 

 to settle are slightly different. But at 

 bottom the problems are so much alike 

 that even in their differences they are in- 

 structive. They are problems in tax legis- 

 lation, protection against fire, and the 

 management of State lands which each 

 State must take hold of by itself. Until a 

 tew years ago they were entirely new to 

 tin- country, but sooner or later every 

 State in the Union will have to deal with 

 them. The way in which the Lake 

 -States are grappling with them is most 

 instructive and their progress is being 

 watched with interest. 



This month come two fresh 

 assurances of the progress 

 which is being made by the friends of for- 

 estry in Minnesota. One, a letter from 

 an enthusiastic but practical friend of 

 the Minnesota Park project living in St. 

 Paul, reports plainly that forestry is be- 

 ing better appreciated daily and that the 

 interest in it is growing rapidly. The 

 other, even more welcome, is the news re- 

 ported in a number of clippings that in 

 Duluth, on October i9th, two men were 

 convicted of starting fires in the timber on 

 the Chippewa Indian Reservation in Itasca 

 county. 



It was alleged in this case that the de- 

 fendants one of them had been prominent 

 as a lumberman in the region for some 

 years had set the fire in order to create 

 dead and down timber which might then 

 be secured from the Indians under the 

 " k dead and down" timber act. For some 

 time there has been good reason to believe 

 that this kind of timber stealing has been 

 far from uncommon in northern Minne- 

 sota. Delegates of the State Federation 

 of Women's Clubs who visited the park 

 country some months ago, found trees 

 which showed signs of having been fired 

 intentionally, and were assured by re- 

 sidents that such was often the case. The 

 State Fire Warden has shown that he also 

 is of this opinion, for though he makes no 

 definite charges he assumes several times 

 in his last report, either expressly or by 

 implication, that the malicious firing of 

 timber in order that the " dead and down " 

 timber Act may apply to it is not uncom- 

 mon. Hitherto, however, no case has 

 been brought into court. Considering 

 that the penalty is three years imprison- 

 ment, or a fine of $5,000, this successful 

 prosecution ought to have a good effect. 

 It will be remembered that the Chip- 

 pewa Indian Reservation in which the 

 burning was done is within the proposed 

 boundaries of the Minnesota Park. 





Possibilities of 

 Forestry in New 

 Hampshire. 



Although it is easy to say 



that the owners of wood- 

 land in New Hampshire 

 have been neglecting their opportunities 



