THE SPRUCE INVESTIGATION. 



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It is also a matter in which the general public and the State 

 Legislature can well afford to take some interest and extend 

 aid towards protecting and perpetuating this, one of our richest 

 natural resources of wealth. 



Whether or not this object can be best attained through a 

 system of reservation or game preserves controlled by the 

 Federal or State Government, by manufacturing and transpor- 

 tation companies, sportmen's associations and private individ- 

 uals, or by some other means, remains to be determined by 

 further study of the conditions. It is very evident, however, 

 that the time is at hand for the question to be agitated, and an 

 effort made to bring about some system of concerted action 

 that will prevent the total destruction of the forests and the 

 consequent loss of State wealth. 



THE RELATION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH TO THE PRESERVATION 

 AND PERPETUATION OF FORESTS. 



Investigations for the purpose of solving the problems which 

 have reference to methods of protecting young and old timber 

 from injury or destruction by insects will form an important 

 feature in any scheme for the protection and perpetuation of 



Fig. XIX. Falls of Black Water, 80ft. wide, 60 ft. high; in Spruce Forest near 



Davis ; altitude 3.000 ft. ; described by Port Crayon 



in Harper's Magazine, in 1857. 



