OPPOSE STATE CONTROL OF FORESTS 



[EMBERS of the Colorado State to the activities of the state for a time, 



Forestry Association, of which but 



W. G. M. Stone is the president, "When the mountains are stripped 



are vigorously combating a move to turn and there is no more timber to put on 



over to the State the public domain and the market : 



all its natural resources. Such a change "When the irrigated lands on the 



would embrace the forest reserves and plains begin to feel the effects upon the 



if these passed into private ownership, water supply by reason of the deforesta- 



as some desire, it would unquestionably tion of the mountains : 



lead to conditions involving the ex- "When it is found that no further 



termination of the forests which con- irrigation development by the storage 



serve the snows and moisture at the of water is possible: 



headwaters of the state's mountain "When all further growth of our 



streams. agriculture in this direction is at an 



The Association now declares that end: 



whatever changes in the Land laws may "When the so called mountain homes 



be necessary in other directions, that it are deserted and the lands are sold for 



most earnestly protests against the taxes with no buyers except the respec- 



turning over to the state of that por- tive counties, what then ? A blight. A 



tion of the public domain which in- set back from which there could be no 



eludes the forest reserves. recovery. A set back by the same cause 



The Association says: "To turn the that brought desolation and ruin upon 



forests over to the state; for the state Northern Africa, Syria and Babylonia, 



to open them up to indiscriminate and once cradles of learning and homes of 



easy entry; letting in sawmills, tie cut- the world's best progress." 



ters, and others in countless numbers rhe resolutions passed by the Asso- 



to get the forest products on the mar- ? atlon heartll Y endorse the policy be-^ 



ket ; the building of thousands of cabins m - P ursued b X . the Fores t Service, 



necessary to shelter such an army of ^^ 1S PP s f d to turning over the 



mountaineers, and the providing of f f orest res f erves t th f state, and pledges 



r , A . ' . ' it support in its undertaking to protect 



food and clothing for so great a num- the forests and improve their greatly 



ber would, without question, add greatly dilapidated condition. 



APPROVE A NATIONAL FOREST 



T a recent meeting of the District crosses the Patuxent River. The 



ot Columbia Branch of the speaker said: "In all this tract includes 



Woman s National Rivers and about 41,000 acres. Separated from it 



Congress a subject under dis- by a narrow strip between Washington 



ssion was the ad visibility of a na- and Laurel, there is another body of 



al as a background and 16,000 acres. Beyond the Patuxent it 



Z <i/K u" g the Caplta1 ' with its swin S s eastward, touching the Severn 



Hn ilC T b , Ulldln & s " s j n g m stately splen- and South rivers and reaching the out- 



wnnlA i /^ i^ m view ' which skirts of Annapolis, the seat of the 



nal foreS h m * P r P se d na- United States Naval Academy, and 



extends nor/h^T ^ Blad f bur ^ a "d thereby adds another area of 43,000 



ends northeast twenty miles, until it acres. Another forest district of vital 



