Forestry School cannot supply the trained men that the State 

 needs, thus missing an opportunity of developing at a minimum 

 expense the most important forestry school in America. 



In the winter of 1907-8, the Forestry Board had 



Sales of Timber dead and down timber cut in Itasca Park to the 



in Itasca Park, amount of 800,960 feet, the net proceeds from 



which, amounting to $4,112.53, were turned into 



the State treasury. It is probable that nearly as much timber can 



be sold from the Park each year. 



Under the appropriation of $2,500 made by the act 

 Tree Planting, of April 23, 1907, the Board planted 600,000 ever- 

 green seedlings of pine and spruce, but principally 

 spruce, in 1907 and 1908, on the Pillsbury reserve (Cass County), 

 and has planted in all 205 acres net on that reserve. There is a 

 balance left of that appropriation amounting to $292, and deducting 

 amounts expended for setting iron stakes around the reserve and for 

 making firelanes, the cost of planting has been only a little over 

 $6.00 per acre, less than one-half cent for each tree planted. The 

 reserve is about twenty miles from the railroad. 



In addition to Itasca Park and the 1,000 acres of 

 Burntside Forest, the Pillsbury reserve, the State holds 20,000 acres 



known as the Burntside forest, situated about ten 

 miles west of Ely, and which was granted to the State on the initia- 

 tive of the Forestry Board, by Act of Congress, April 28, 1904. Not 

 a dollar has been appropriated thus far for the care and develop- 

 ment of that forest. It is accessible only by boat and trail. The 

 nearest road to it is the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad, which, at 

 Robinson Station, passes within about seven miles from its south- 

 ern boundary. 



The law of 1903, authorized the Forestry Board to purchase for 

 forest reserves, at not exceeding $2.50 per acre, land adapted for 

 forestry, but no money has been appropriated to carry the law into 

 effect. The Board recommends such appropriation as the L,egisla- 

 ture deems expedient to make this law efifective. 



The prevention of forest fires will not only assist natural forest 

 regeneration, but will promote that feeling of safety and security 

 amiong new settlers which is essential for the development of the 



