Gleams of Hope in Michigan Forestry. 



S A RESULT of the agitation on forestry subjects 

 since the Michigan Forestry Commission was 

 appointed, the following steps of progress are 

 encouraging : 



Public attention has been arrested. 

 Public sympathy has been awakened. 



The danger of further deforestation is apparent to thought- 

 ful citizens everywhere. 



Lumbermen are alive to the importance of continuing the 

 supply of raw material. 



Manufacturers are questioning where their supplies in the 

 future are to come from. 



Railroads are investigating the problem of how most 

 economically to meet the demand for ties. 



Those who profit from the great resort industries begin to 

 apprecia'e the gre'it importance of the virgin forests as a 

 factor in the'r business. 



Spcrls,ncn are thotouebly aroused as to the importance of a 

 permanent forestry preserve and a place of safety for game 

 to reproduce its kind, lest the most interesting forms should 

 be completely eliminated from our borders. 



Farmers are alarmed by the changes wrought by the 



loss of the forests, and are studying economic methods of 

 reforestation. 



Fruit-growers are feeling keenly the loss of wind-breaks as 

 protectors of their interests, and are asking what can be done 

 to restore the conditions that have made Michigan famous as 

 a fruit State. 



Users of water-power understand, as never before, the 

 importance of maintaining an even flow in our streams, which 

 forest growth about their sources and along their borders 

 alone can produce. 



Navigators, and all interested in lake marine, have learned 

 that it costs money to dig the annual deposits of silt from the 

 harbors of Michigan, caused in a large measure by the fitful 

 floods which result from the deforested borders of streams 

 which flow into them. 



All who are interested in the beauty of our fair peninsula 

 regret the great loss in the rapidly-diminishing forest cover, 

 and are deeply in earnest in their advocacy of the most profit- 

 able methods of restoring a fair proportion of timber growth 

 to the State. 



Educators and students of human evolution are becoming 

 impressed by the wonderful and far-reaching influence upon 

 man of the physical geography of countries, and are looking 

 with anxiety upon the ruthless destruction of our forest cover 

 because of its possible effects indirectly through physical 

 changes upon the type of our manhood. 



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