USE OF A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Band of 1,600 Sheep Belonging to D. W. Clark, Grazing in Holy Cross. Colo., National Forest 



versity of Missouri is recommended, 

 the instructor to be a technically trained 

 forester, who shall have charge of the 

 forestry work of the state." 



According to this expert'- opinion, 

 the forest resource*- of Missouri arc ex- 

 ceedingly valuable and special effort 

 should be made to secure their perpetu- 

 ation, and. as the policy of the past ha- 

 been almost wholly destructive, the 

 work of the future should be of a con- 

 -tructivc nature. 



To secure this desired change in con- 

 ditions, this committee ur^e- club wom- 

 en to take- up two closely related depart- 

 ment- of work: the encouragement of 

 M-ientific f" re -try in the state, and of 

 arboriculture as it relates to the plant- 

 ing ami care of tree- for -hade and or- 

 namental purpose-. 



Since most of the timber is under pri- 

 vate control, the mo-t ini|*rtant work- 

 to be done i- the creating, by educa- 

 tional and persuasive mean-, of a senti- 



ment favorable to forest preservation. 

 I he most effective agencies through 

 which to work are the press, the club. 

 and the public school. Through the 

 press, both the city daily and the coun- 

 try weekly, an educational campaign 

 -hould be carried on by the di-trict 

 chairman. The information thus carried 

 into every home in the state \\oiild. in 

 time, educate the reading public to an 

 appreciation of the -tate'- foresl re- 

 source- and the necessity for their 



preservation. 



Through an oh-crvance of Fore-try 

 Day in the club and of Arln-r Dav 



in the school, this educational work 

 -hould be continued. In the arrar. 

 ment of program-, the economic, a- 

 well a- the ;e-t1iclic value of f 

 should be Considered. The value of the 

 day lies net - much in the entertain- 

 ment afforded or even in the tr 

 planted as in the tree -entiment created 

 and stimulated, that will lead to a bet- 



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