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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



There are but two primeval forests 

 remaining on the Presidential Range. 

 The more attractive, the Randolph 

 Forest, from which rise the peaks of 

 Jefferson, Adams, and Madison, has 

 been three-fourths removed in the last 

 three years, leaving prominent ugly 

 scars in its place on the mountains. 

 The last and best fourth of it, up the 

 "valley way" on Mount Madison, will 

 probably disappear in the coming win- 



tive action. 



In addition to these reasons for a 

 reservation in New England, a word 

 should be said for the principle of a 

 government ownership of non-agricul- 

 tural land. There has been a great 

 outcry against the lumberman which 

 has been of no avail. It is also with- 

 out reasonable foundation, for why 

 should he, more than others, have re- 

 nent Minnesota lumberman, has well 



Land Cut Clear and Burned Over About Ten Years Ago. 



ter. The other primeval forest is less 

 accessible, on the Pinkham Notch side 

 of Mt. Washington, and is threatened 

 "for commercial purposes," having re- 

 cently changed ownership. It is now 

 too late even with prompt action, to do 

 what could easily have been done two 

 years ago. Four of the Sibylline books 

 have been destroyed. But there is still 

 sufficient reason for prompt and po'si- 



said, "The State has interests far be- 

 yond those of the individual." It is 

 because the State is neglecting these 

 interests that we suffer. Let us direct 

 the energy that we have hitherto 

 wasted in denunciation, into the more 

 useful channel of State and National 

 acquisition of lands not fit for agricul- 

 gard for the future welfare of the peo- 

 ple? As Mr. Weyerhaueser, a promi- 



