1904 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



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A DUNE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION ON THE NEW JERSEY COAST. 



evils and the establishment of future 

 benefits. Lumber, firewood, resin, tur- 

 pentine, and all the by-products of resin- 

 ous distillation are now produced in such 

 abundance here as not only to prevent 

 the need of importation, but to make 

 southwest France a considerable and 

 profitable exporter of the same. Not 

 only the finest lumber for domestic uses 

 is produced, but railway ties, telegraph 

 poles, fence and vineyard posts, and 

 millions of the pit props which sustain 

 the roofs of English collieries come from 

 the eastern shore of the Gulf of Gas- 

 cony, the ships that bring Welsh coals 

 carrying back the supports which make 

 the mining of coal possible. 



SAND DUNES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The United States, which in the be- 

 ginning of the nineteenth century had 

 the monopoly of naval stores and the 

 resinous products for which civiliza- 

 tion makes increasing demand, now 

 finds a rival in the maritime pine of 



the dunes which were then worse than 

 barren, and it is today a considerable 

 importer through the port of Bordeaux 

 of the finer products of resinous dis- 

 tillation. While we have wasted our 

 abundance by reckless destruction of 

 our forests, France, by intelligent con- 

 servation of hers through reforestation 

 of her dunes, has made them produc- 

 tive and profitable. The one has de- 

 veloped wealth from barrenness and the 

 other as rapidly evolved barrenness from 

 lavish abundance. Dunes like those 

 which a century ago threatened the 

 prosperity of France are today making 

 serious inroads on our Atlantic and Pa- 

 cific seaboards. While France made 

 enlightened appeal to the maritime pine 

 and its associated growths to save her 

 from threatened desolation, we have re- 

 fused protection to the much richer 

 long-leafed pines, which asked only op- 

 portunity to continue to pour wealth 

 and favor upon our southern slopes. 

 Will the conditions of a century ago be 



