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THE FORESTER. 



March , 



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Copyright, 1901, by the American Forestry As- 

 sociation. 



Vol. VII. 



MA.RCH, 1901. 



No. 3. 



The Forest Agi- Since the last Foreseer 

 tation in New went to press an associa- 

 Hampshire. tion named "The Society 



for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests" has been organized 

 at Concord (N. H.), and Ex-Governor 

 F. W. Rollins, has been elected its presi- 

 dent; Joseph T. Walker, of Concord, its 

 secretary. Its constitution and a full list 

 of its officers will soon be published. 

 Meanwhile, largely as a result of the agi- 

 tation from which the Association has 

 sprung, a number of forest bills have al- 

 ready been introduced into the State legis- 

 lature. That they are being killed off 

 fast in the committees is of little impor- 

 tance for such was almost sure to be their 

 tate. They are interesting enough simply 

 as the first formulated expressions of a 

 long hoped-for movement which has taken 

 shape very rapidly during the last six 

 months, and which is now producing a 

 State association. Taken together they ex- 

 press a simple and yet fairly complete State 

 policy with regard to the forests one 

 which involves the establishing and man- 

 agement <-f a State reservation, the dis- 

 ragement of clean cutting, and the 

 fostering of investments in forest growth 



For there are places in the White Moun- 

 tains in which public ownership is as much 

 an essential condition of the region's per- 

 manent attractiveness and prosperity as 

 anywhere in New York or Massachusetts. 

 The method of cutting off the small trees 

 with the big and then deserting the land 

 to fire, which is still practiced by many 

 lumbermen, is generally both shortsighted 

 from the point of view of whoever owns 

 the land, and bad from that of the com- 

 munity. And lastly, so to distribute taxes 

 as to discourage needlessly an industry 

 which would interfere with no other but 

 would fill a vacancy, shows only improvi- 

 dence. On all these accounts the sub- 

 stance of the bills which have failed in 

 the State legislatures this winter, must 

 become a. reality in New Hampshire in 

 time. The sentiment of the State, as soon 

 as there is any worthy of the name, will 

 demand it, but whether in all things by 

 way of the statute books may be doubted. 

 For instance, a law restricting- the cutting 

 for sale of soft woods to trees ten inches 

 or over in diameter, two feet above the 

 ground such is one of those before the 

 legislature this winter could never be 

 enforced beyond the point up to which 

 the sentiment of the community was ac- 

 tively in favor of it, and up to that point 

 it would be needless. For the present it 

 is good to see this sentiment being aroused 

 both by the discussion of proposed laws 

 and by a promising association. 



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An Example 

 to the Point. 



through the lessening of taxes. This 

 policj is sure to be adopted ultimately. 



Just as the legislature of 

 New Hampshire is being 

 asked to pass a law r to 

 prohibit the cutting for sale of pine, hem- 

 lock, spruce and fir trees, under ten 

 inches in diameter, there has come to our 

 notice a " Contract for Cutting and Haul- 

 ing Logs" according to which the Great 

 Northern Paper Co., of Maine, is having 

 its lands lumbered. This company is one 

 of the largest owners of spruce in the 

 northeastern States, and the contract shows 

 that it has decided of its own accord to do 

 about what some people in New Hamp- 

 shire would have their State require by 

 law. This contract is evidently based on 





