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that a fair amount of timber could be hand if it were avoided, if a White 



cut regularly from such lands with- Mountain forest reserve under public 



out temporarily or permanently de- control were established, it would be 



straying the forest. The recent sur- unto all generations a thing rejoiced 



veys and examinations by forest ex- in and to be more and more proud of. 



perts have only served to make this There are very many patiently prac- 



more clear ; but even if such were not tical reasons both local and general 



the case it would be proper and poli- why a White Mountain forest reserve 



tic for the public to secure the safety should be established, of which I am 



and continued existence as such of an not now trying to speak. No one now 



occasional accessible and not too im- questions the necessity of parks in 



mense body of primeval forest. Strict- our cities ; and the older states have 



ly commercial considerations are not for years recognized and more or less 



the only ones, any more than other acted on the principle that reserves 



considerations are necessarily unprac- and parks which no city or town could 



tical. Although it is perhaps true create or manage, must be maintained, 



that there will probably always be So where the welfare of what is in 



some primeval forest in New York and substance a national park already is 



New England, there is serious danger endangered, and one state cannot meet 



that it may dwindle to an inferior or the emergency, it is for the nation to 



inaccessible and insignificant remnant, take the necessary steps. The cir- 



suggestive chiefly of regrets. cumstances differ principally in size, 



To a great and generous-minded the thing is on a larger scale, but no 



nation such a situation would be for- new precedent is being created. The 



ever lamentable; and on the other principle is the same. 



THE FOREST SERVICE 



Progress of Government Work in Forestry 



CO-OPERATIVE WORK f over 1,154,000 acres, and examina- 



Some idea of the scope of the co- tions of the tracts are being made as 



operative work of the Forest Service rapidly as possible. 



with owners of timberlands, under the In addition to the timber tract work, 



offer of co-operation outlined in Cir- examinations have been asked for for 



cular No. 21 of the Forest Service, over 32,000 acres of woodlots. These 



may be gained from the figures show- tracts average from 10 to 100 acres in 



ing the number of acres embraced in size. Of this area 20,790 acres have 



this work already been examined and detailed re- 



Since the offer of co-operation as- ports sent to the owners. A large per- 



sistance has been asked for in the man- centage of the tracts are now under 



agement of 11,269,000 acres. Detailed forest management, 

 working plans have been made for 



tracts aggregating 858,000 acres and COMPANY INTERESTED 

 are now being carried out upon them, 



the work being inspected from time to An agent of the Forest Service has 



time by agents of the Service. Work- just returned to Washington after 



ing plans are now in preparation for having completed the field study for 



2 950 ooo acres more, while prelimi- a working plan, which the 



nary examinations have been made for preparing for a mining company in 



2,576,000 acres. Timber tract appli- Kentucky, 



cations are now on hand for an area The company s lands, which are coal 



