TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE FORESTER. 



Introduction. 



With this report the office of State Forester completes the 

 first decade of its existence. It is a pleasure at this time not 

 only to report upon the activities and accomplishments of the 

 year just closing, but to also call brief attention to our ten 

 years of sturdy growth and our increasing usefulness to this 

 grand old Bay State, whose natural resources we are striving 

 to protect and augment. The people of INIassachusetts are 

 second to none in public sentiment, and now that forestry is 

 definitely recognized as of fundamental importance to both our 

 economic and aesthetic development, in what direction, may I 

 ask, should our efforts toward usefulness tend during the next 

 ten years? 



Let us all have a hand in this most promising and captivat- 

 ing w^ork, and I am sure that future decades as they roll by will 

 each point to the earnest beginning of this generation. 



If our interest in the work maintains its steady growth 

 throughout the State, the next ten years will accomplish far 

 more than most people realize, and hence even we, ourselves, 

 may live to enjoy some of the first fruits of our labors. 



It is proverbial that we Americans are rather deliberate and 

 desire to get our bearings before we really set ourselves to a 

 task, but once satisfied we are right, then we break all precedent 

 in our ability to accomplish results. What Germany, Austria, 

 France, Denmark, Belgium and other countries have taken 

 centuries to learn, we can quickly adopt and put into practice. 

 To allow 1,000,000 acres of depleted and waste lands to lie idle 

 in a live and progressive State like ^Massachusetts, where the 

 markets are the best in the world, is accounted for only by 

 the fact that forest products, like all other natural resources, 



