PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 161 
Much injury has been done the remains of the forest by persons in search 
of specimens who have carried away large quantities of material. Unless this 
is stopped the time will soon come when so little will remain that the locality 
will be deprived of all its interest, and one of the rarest illustrations of nature’s 
work under peculiar conditions will be destroyed. 
Protection would be given a large part, if not all, of the forest by in- 
cluding it within the limits of a park to be maintained by the National Gov- 
ernment. A few guards would suffice to prevent further destruction, and but 
little expense would be involved in constructing whatever improvements 
in the form of roads, trails and bridges might be needed. 
The house committee on public lands having reported favorably on a bill 
to set apart the lands embraced in Arizona’s petrified forest as a park, it is 
probable that the measure will become a law. It will be received with ap- 
proval wherever there is any knowledge of the wonderful formation included 
within the forest. 
