1901. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Their thrift indicates complete adaptability 

 to the situation, and unless burned out, 

 they will certainly attain suitable size 

 for lumbering. The conclusion forces 

 itself that the species which are adapted to 

 that location, will grow on hundreds of 

 thousands of acres in the sand hills where 

 the natural conditions are precisely the 

 same. 



The party from the Bureau of Forestry 

 will pay especial attention to that portion 

 of the sfovernment land in the state which 

 is not well adapted to farming or grazing, 

 and will bring together every bit of obtain- 

 able information on its adaptability to 

 forest growth, and on means of foresting 

 it in case it is adapted to trees. 



If it is found that portions of this land 



West. This work can not be done quickly. 

 It will require many years. But it can be 

 started soon, and the sooner the hotter. 

 It is a work of too long duration to he 

 adapted to individual or even corporate 

 enterprise. If done at all it must he done 

 by the State or General Government. 



Several important considerations seem 

 to mark it as preeminently the work 

 the National Government. First, the 

 government owns the land. Second, the 

 government has already the organization, 

 both to carry on the necessary scientific 

 research, and to administer the work. 

 Third, the government has already a forest 

 reserve system covering forty-six million 

 acres. These forest lands are protected 

 and kept under a system of culture or 



FIG. 3 . THE SANDHILL REGION IN WHICH IS LOCATED THE SUCCESSFUL PLANTATION OF 

 PINES SHOWN IN FIG. 4- GARFIELD COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 



can be forested economically with valuable management in order to supply the need, 

 timber, certainly all will agree that it of the people for lumber and fuel. 

 should be done. Timber is the great want has been announced as the poliC) ol the 



. 4- 4-^ Ki-inrr mil i*l **11i 1 niltlt'L- 



of the Middle West. A forest in western 

 Nebraska would be of incalculable value 

 to the entire region. It would reclaim 

 areas which can never be reclaimed in any 

 other way, and would make them as valu- 

 able acre for acre as any other land in the 



government to bring under such protec- 

 tion and culture, all government lands, 

 wholly or in part covered by forests, that 

 are more valuable for forest than for other 

 uses, and to do this as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. 



