1905 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



563 



or citizen has equal privileges with her 

 own. 



Some persons seem to think that 

 congressmen are prone to look at such 

 questions only from the standpoint of 

 sectional interests. The time has come 

 when as Americans it is believed sec- 

 tionalism is rapidly disappearing. We 

 of New Hampshire can see the claims 

 put forth by those interested in the 

 proposed Southern Appalachian Re- 

 serve as readily as we do our own, and 

 the agitation of the White Mountain 

 proposition does not lessen, but empha- 

 sizes the importance of each. 



Conditions have only come about in 

 very recent years whereby Congress 

 could feel justified in setting aside 

 such vast tracts and feel assured that 

 they would be handled judiciously. 

 In a comparatively few years the whole 

 matter pertaining to a systematic na- 

 tional forestry policy has been un- 

 folded to us. With the rapidly extend- 

 ing and wisely guided corps of workers 

 in the field that the nation is already 

 so proud of, we can rest assured that 

 governmental supervision, whereby 

 conservative and economic methods 

 will be carried out, is at hand. 



The writer does not care to go into 

 the discussion of other vital and all- 

 important subjects that further go to 

 emphasize the great importance of set- 

 ting aside this area of our country. 

 Students having given any attention to 

 such subjects as the comparative evo- 

 lution of nations, laying any stress 

 whatsoever upon the results coming 

 from efforts directed toward forest 

 preservation and management, readily 

 see corresponding results in individual 

 nations' internal power and usefulness. 

 It is not the duty nor is it possible for 

 the individual or state to accomplish 

 the broad and widespread usefulness 

 that becomes the privilege of the na- 

 tion to enjoy in solving these larger 

 problems of the nation's future. 



The writer, as the instructor of 

 young men, who will ultimately be- 

 come our land owners and agricultural 

 leaders, finds his present duties utilized 



largely in demonstrating the practical 

 solution of handling lands for definite 

 purposes. Every state is interested 

 in training its own citizens for their 

 life work and hence developing men 

 worthy of handling future problems. 

 The majority of us in this educational 

 work believe much good must ulti- 

 mately come from this work, but we 

 can do but little in furthering such a 

 worthy problem as needs national so- 

 lution at the hands of Congress. That 

 every professor of forestry in the va- 

 rious states is doing what he can, how- 

 ever, to promote the interest and em- 

 phasize the importance of forestry 

 throughout the nation, there can be 

 no doubt. When I say, therefore, that 

 the White Mountain Forest Reserve 

 movement is backed by these men I 

 feel sure of my claim. What is said 

 for the White Mountain Reserve may 

 be said equally for the Southern Appa'- 

 lachian Reserve. 



We in New England believe fully 

 that we take more pride and enjoy- 

 ment when privileged to visit and en- 

 joy the benefits to be derived from a 

 visit to the Yellowstone National Park 

 than our own citizens living in the 

 West, and similarly do we find other 

 people from other sections enjoying 

 our beautiful White Hills of old New 

 England. 



We need to preserve the watersheds 

 of New England for irrigating our 

 valley lands and to give us an equita- 

 ble water flow for our industries as 

 much as do our western people to sup- 

 ply their great artificial irrigation s\ s 

 terns. The government would not al- 

 low the forests removed after it had 

 gone to great expense in building- 

 irrigation enterprises which depend 

 upon such reservoirs for success; none 

 the less should the White Mountain 

 and other proposed reserves be allowed 

 to succumb to injudicious manage- 

 ment. While the conduits or streams 

 are natural and have not been an actual 

 outlay of expense to the government. 



