1906 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



411 



not have been classified and given in 

 whole at any one time. These meas- 

 ures, in brief, are something as fol- 

 lows: I. State control of both public 

 and private timber lands, and the com- 

 pulsory planting of young trees to take 

 the places of mature growth that has 

 been cut. 2. The securing by the State 

 of the remaining federal forests and 

 of Government lands not suitable to 

 agriculture. 3. Forest Service control 

 of the Cass Lake forest reserve. 4. 



and the compulsory planting of young 

 trees constitutes a policy that has 

 been in force in some foreign countries 

 for years. It should be elaborated to 

 the extent of designating that only 

 trees of a certain size of growth shall 

 be cut, and that for every mature tree 

 cut, at least one young tree shall be 

 started. Then the State government 

 should provide that proper care should 

 be taken of the young trees to prevent 

 their destruction bv fire or other 



Pure Stand of Sapling Norway Pine on the Minnesota Forest Reserve 

 Showing the Forest Possibilities of the State 



The purchase by the State of rocky 

 and inferior cut-over pine lands which 

 shall be devoted to forestry. 5. Turn- 

 ing over the Itasca state park to the 

 Minnesota School of Agriculture for 

 practical forestry demonstration. 6. 

 The enlargement and extension of the 

 State fire warden service. 7. The ex- 

 emption from taxation of all lands ex- 

 clusively devoted to the growth of 

 timber. 



The first of these the State con- 

 trol of public and private timber lands 



causes, so that in time the tree that 

 has been removed shall be replaced by 

 another of commercial value. The 

 second suggestion, thaj; the State 

 should procure from the Government 

 all the remaining forest areas and low 

 grade lands remaining under federal 

 ownership, involves a responsibility 

 that the State has as yet shown no dis- 

 position to assume, but which it could 

 well afford to take. The third sug- 

 gestion, that the Forest Service should 

 control the Cass Lake reserve, might 



