CORSICA 9 



the growing stock depleted and exhausted. In many respects 

 the sales conditions contained in the sale contracts are similar 

 to those used by the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. But there is one vital difference: in Corsica the con- 

 cession of making sales for large amounts and for terms of 

 years was justified by the resulting improvement in communi- 

 cations. There, such large sales are considered an unquestion- 

 able evil but necessary until the transport of small-sales products 

 is made feasible through the construction of permanent logging 

 roads. In the United States steam transportation often pre- 

 cludes the development of a wagon-road system by purchasers, 

 but an attempt is now being made to make current sales con- 

 tribute towards a permanent road system. 



Where the administration seems to have failed is in the proper 

 education of the native population in the value of conservation. 

 It seems almost incredible that out of almost 600 trespass cases, 

 brought in 191 1 before the courts, more than half were acquitted. 

 There is marked contrast between this lack of success in pre- 

 venting, controlling, and punishing trespassers in Corsica with 

 that made by the Forest Service in the western United States 

 where to-day trespass is practically a thing of the past. 



