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inspired by its majesty. Hence it is that the greatest 

 poets of all ages have made the forest a favorite theme 

 and source of illustration. The forest is landscape and in 

 some sense belongs to the public. 



INDIRECT BENEFITS OF THE FOREST. 



The forest improves climate. The air of the forest is 

 a little warmer in winter and a little cooler in summer 

 than the air of open country. The forest is a barrier to 

 the cold north wind and to the hot south wind. Forest 

 air, like that of the sea, is richer in ozone, and therefore 

 healthier than the air of open country. The forest holds 

 moisture, and therefore helps to maintain and equalize 

 water flow. The forest enriches the soil. 



LUMBER MANUFACTURERS AND FORESTRY. 



' ' The intelligent efforts of forestry commissions, " said 

 Mr. William Irvine, president of the Mississippi Valley 

 Lumbermen's Association at its annual meeting, in 1899, 

 ' ' should receive your support, to the end that waste shall 

 be avoided, and the danger of forest fires reduced to the 

 minimum. The interests of all lumbermen lie in the 

 direction of eflforts being made by the fire wardens of the 

 northwestern states, and from united efforts will follow 

 good results." 



PINE ON DIMINISHED INDIAN RESERVATIONS. 



There are some valuable tracts of white and Norway 

 pine on the diminished Red Lake and White Earth Indian 

 reservations which remain under the control of the Interior 

 Department, and which should be administered according 

 to forestry principles. In this way the ripe pine would be 

 cut as fast as it could be sold to advantage, and the young 

 growth would be thus protected. The Indians would 

 thus have a perpetual forest. This clearly would be much 

 better for the Indians than to permit the pine to be cut 

 in the ordinary destructive way of lumbering, which is to 



