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more or less bordered with summer cottages. Now, with im- 

 proved roads and automobiles, a new movement is rapidly 

 gaining throughout New England. Business men are making 

 their permanent homes in the country and are acquiring large 

 tracts of cheap land much of which is covered with second-growth 

 forest. 



Everyone is coming to see that the original forests of the United 

 States will soon be exhausted, and the enthusiasm for forestry 

 and conservation in general, which has swept the country in the 

 past decade, is strong in New England. Nowhere in the country 

 are the opportunities for the practice of forestry better than here, 

 and nowhere has greater or finer progress in private forestry been 

 made than in this old region which has been lumbered over and 

 burned over for nearly three centuries. 



