WEST VIRGINIA FAVORS RESERVES 



The Governor of That Commonwealth 

 Argues Strongly for Prompt Action 



'W/EST VIRGINIA'S interest in the 

 eastern forest reserve question 

 is shown in the following letter : 



June 5, 1906. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



President of the American Forestry 

 Association, 



Washington, D. C. 



Dear Sir : I am in favor of the pro- 

 posed establishment of the Appalach- 



ian Forest Reserve and the White 

 Mountain Forest Reserve : 



(a) The teachings of history glean- 

 ed from all civilized nations demand 

 that forests should be preserved, that 

 the balance of nature be not disturbed, 

 thus fatally affecting sound economic 

 conditions. Even Russia, since 1888, 

 has had an Imperial Forest Policy. 

 Japan has a reserve of twenty-nine 

 million acres under a finely organized 



HON. WILLIAM M. O. DAWSON 

 The able and aggressive Governor of West Virginia who favors the 

 establishment of Forest Reserves in the Southern Appalachians 

 and the White Mountains. 



