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feature. Therefore, adequate appro- 

 priation should be made through 

 State taxation to make it possible to 

 provide for the appointment of so- 

 called district fire wardens, whose 

 duties would be to co-operate with 

 the local fire wardens, timber owners, 

 and others, throughout the entire 

 wooded area of the State. 



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POLITICS AND STATE 

 FORESTRY 



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Pennsylvania has been one of the 

 first states to take up forestry in a 

 serious manner and it is the onlij state 

 that has taken up forest management 

 in a thoroughly logical and profession- 

 al way, remarks "Forest Leaves." 

 The chief difficulty has been that 

 it began and limited its activities 

 to strictly cut-over forest lands and 

 often thoroughly devastated lands. 

 Hence, it must be a long time before 

 its foresters, whatever their skill, can 

 restore any considerable part of the 

 once magnificent timber cover. To 

 accomplish anything at all the State 

 must adopt a far-seeing statesmanlike 

 policy, and then persistently stick to 

 it until the foresters can show the 

 final results — one hundred years and 

 more hence. Here lies the chief diffi- 

 culty in state forestry. Very few 

 states have carried out any consistent 

 long lime policies of any kind. State 

 activities go by fits and starts, and 

 if there is anything hostile and in- 

 jurious to the forest work, it is the 

 'Tits and starts" methocl of pro- 



cedure. The continual organizations 

 and reorganizations, the changing of 

 men and ideas, the upsetting of poli- 

 cies, and particularly greatly fluctuat- 

 ing appropriations are incompatible 

 with a successful State Forest Policy. 

 Forestry requires men trained for a 

 life work, and men of faith and vision 

 in the future. Nothing kills the 

 spirit of such a force of men as the 

 uncertainty of what the next legisla- 

 ture will do; of what attitude a new 

 governor will assume toward the 

 work; of what change in viewpoint 

 and ideals the always possible re- 

 placement in executive head may 

 bring about. 



RUSSIA'S FUTURE IN TIMBER 



With the marvelous increase in the 

 harbor facilities of Archangel and 

 Vladivostock and the extension of 

 railroads in the forested districts, 

 the Russian lumber has a big future. 

 In 1913, the last year of normal ex- 

 port, lumber worth 165,000,000 rubles 

 was exported. By the closing of 

 the Baltic ports this export has been 

 reduced to a valuation of 27,200,000 

 rubles. Vast stores of timber have 

 accumulated, and in Archangel alone 

 65,000,000 rubles' worth of timber 

 is ready for shipment. In 1916, when 

 an increase in exports is noticed, 

 little big timber was shippe.d, the 

 exports being mainly pine for match- 

 es and spruce for paper pulp. Do- 

 mestic consumption of timber has 

 been large, a considerable quantity 

 being required for military purposes. 

 The demand for railroad ties has been 



