Prefatory Note 



The Forestry Commission has from its organization 

 arranged to make a formal report to the Governor 

 just previous to the biennial session of the State Leg- 

 islature, for the purpose of calling attention to such 

 matters requiring legislative action as the Commission 

 finds necessary or desirable. Ad interim, in the alter- 

 nate years, something in the way of a report of pro- 

 gress has been issued. The first brochure of this kind 

 was entitled "A Little Talk on Forestry." The sec- 

 ond one was entitled "Steps of Progress in Michigan 

 Forestry." This little volume is the third one in the 

 series, issued under the title of "The Advance Move- 

 ment in Michigan Forestry." 



The forestry movement has forged ahead very rap- 

 idly in 1905, and rather culminated in the organiza- 

 tion of the Michigan Forestry Association the last days 

 of August. The report of this convention which led 

 to the permanent organization, is given in this little 

 volume, together with the formal report of the Forest 

 Warden concerning the work in the two Forest Re- 

 serves. 



The demand for literature of forestry has been so 

 great upon the Commission that the limited number 

 of reports which is provided for by statute does not 

 meet the wants, and this volume has for one of its ob- 

 jects the answering of questions from school men, lit- 

 erary societies, farmers' institutes and individual in- 

 terrogations in the simplest and most satisfactory 

 way. The publication of the State Review, which is 

 the official organ of the Michigan Forestry Associa- 

 tion, will aid very materially in the dissemination of 

 facts and methods worked out under the auspices of 

 the Michigan Forestry Commission, and we are more 

 hopeful than at any time since the State took hold 

 formally of the forestry movement, that rapid advances 

 will be made in reforestation which will meet the re- 

 quirements of a progressive State. 



In presenting this booklet, the Michigan Forestry 

 Commission invites correspondence upon any matter 

 suggested by the text, and will be glad to render any 

 assistance within its power to either corporations or 

 individuals who have in mind experiments in forestry 

 or the planting of large areas of cheap lands to forest 

 trees having in view commercial results. 



CHAS W. GARFIELD, 

 ARTHUR HILL, 

 WM. H. ROSE, 

 Michigan Forestry Commission. 



November, 1905. 



