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Canudian Forcslrij Journal, February, 1918 



to do, though the palm is scantily 

 represented on our southern coast. I 

 have watched the cocoanut palm, 

 with its restless foliage swaying in the 

 ever present land, or sea breeze of 

 the ocean shore. But this has not 

 altered in my mind the idea of 

 tropical rest, for ' I see that the 

 motion is produced by a force ou't- 

 side of the palm. Nor can I escape 

 the idea that the tropics, where the 

 palm flourishes is the land of little 

 achievement; where God has been too 



kind for man's own good. True, this 

 has little to do with the trees them- 

 selves, for their activities may be 

 great. It is possible, however, for 

 one from long habit to look at trees as 

 helping to form human habits and so 

 forming human histqry. If such 

 association can be tolerated, it is easy 

 to look upon all tropical life, plant 

 and animal, as lacking the vigor and 

 helpful productiveness of the land of 

 the oak and the pine. 



J. T. R. in "Forest Leaves." 



Forests, The Keystone of War 



By Prof. J. W. Toumey, 



Dean of Yale Forest ScHOOt 



"\'ictory is with the army whose 

 country has the greatest iron mines 

 and smelters, the largest area of 

 waving grain and abundance of wood. 

 Of all the products of the soil upon 

 which the very life of a nation depends 

 in times of war, wood is the only one 

 that cannot be rapidly increased un- 

 der necessity and by the employment 

 of adecpiate labor. Therefore, pro- 

 vision for adecjuate national defence 

 necessitates the maintenance of vast 

 reserves of timber throughout the 

 nation, reserves from which billions 

 of feet can be drawn in a single year 

 if necessary to meet the needs of the 

 army and navy. 



A sane and conservative develop- 

 ment of forest resources to meet the 

 needs of the nation in times of peace 

 necessitates a constantly increasing 

 intensity of management of all ab- 

 solute forest land and the building 

 up and maintenance of an enormous 

 forest capital. Please remember this 

 forest capital can be drawn upon in 

 times of war and may determine the 

 fate of the nation. 



England has for centuries neglect- 

 ed her forests and for generations has 

 obtained most of the wood used in her 

 buildings and industry from be- 

 yond the sea. The stress of war 

 iound her with a meagre forest 



capital, and New England's sons 

 many of them New Hampshire boys, 

 are today felling the remnant ot the 

 forests of that proud country that the 

 empire may live. When the sombre 

 clouds of war are lifted from Europe's 

 battlehelds and peace again rules 

 over the earth, Englancl's lesson, 

 learned in this bitter strife, will be 

 taken to heart by her people and 

 forests will clothe her idle lands. A 

 forest capital, far beyond that of 

 former days, will not only add to her 

 economic development in times of 

 peace but be developed and main- 

 tained, to better insure her against 

 vital needs in times of possible future 

 strife. 



France has been more far-seeing in 

 her forest policy, and, next to Ger- 

 many, has been the most successful 

 nation in Europe in the economic de- 

 velopment of her non-agricultural 

 lands for the production of timber. 

 When the war broke out she had a 

 forest capital that under the neces- 

 sity of strife could be drawn upon for 

 vast supplies of wood necessary for 

 mining, transportation and trench 

 construction, all vital to her very 

 existence. If the French had had no 

 forests at the outbreak of the war, 

 France would be devastated today 

 and the nations of middle Europe 

 feasting in the halls of Paris. 



