3 i6 ARBOR DAY 



THE RESTORATION OF THE FORESTS 



BY GEORGE P. MARSH 



From Man and Nature 



THE objects of the restoration of the forests are 

 as multifarious as the motives which have led to 

 their destruction, and as the evils which that destruc- 

 tion has occasioned. The planting of the mountains 

 will diminish the frequency and violence of river 

 inundations; prevent the formation of torrents; 

 mitigate the extremes of atmospheric temperature, 

 humidity and precipitation; restore dried-up springs, 

 rivulets and sources of irrigation; shelter the fields 

 from chilling and from parching winds; prevent the 

 spread of miasmatic effluvia; and, finally, furnish 

 an inexhaustible and self -renewing supply of material 

 indispensable to so many purposes of domestic 

 comfort, to the successful exercise of every act of 

 peace, every destructive energy of war. 



THE USES OF THE FOREST* 



BY GIFFORD PINCHOT 



From A Primer oj Forestry 



A FOREST, large or small, may render its service 

 in many ways. It may reach its highest usefulness 

 by standing as a safeguard against floods, winds, 



* Government Printing Office, 1905. 



