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on the other side. It is the province of this report to i give 

 information, but at the same time it is the part of wisdom to 

 urge that the State shall take care to inculcate sound moral 

 instruction as well as give valuable facts. The education of the 

 people is not wholly one of techniqiie. The State is responsible ■ 

 for order as well as sound learning, and the education or uplift- 

 ing of the moral sentiment is as essential as that of mere school- 

 ing in the facts of science. The people must be taught to recog- 

 nize duty to the State as well as to individual, and no amount of 

 technical education is of force to save the forests unless the 

 interest of the individual coincides with that of the State. 

 Hence an educational campaign is desirable. The State ought 

 to continiie the work of giving information about forests and 

 forest management and protection, and also aim to create a 

 public sentiment which shall compel the local authorities in the 

 more densely wooded districts to stop forest fires and lead to a 

 better care of woodland and to the restoration of the forest over 

 lands which are not of value in tillage or pasturage in farms. 

 Inasmuch as these surveys of the forests of the State were 

 begun by the Geological Survey, the continuation of the work 

 and of this educational campaign could be directed by the Board 

 of Managers of the Survey as a Forest Commission and be done 

 by an expert forester under the direction of said Board. The 

 duties of this forester would be like those of State Foresters, 

 in States which have such offices, and would be largely in col- 

 lecting information and in distributing it by correspondence 

 and by public lectures, bulletins and annual reports. 



