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and through his editorial utterances upon a wide range of subjects, has 

 caused this paper to occupy a unique place in Michigan journalism. He 

 has had an unusual experience in public life, having started his career 

 in public vocations as reading clerk in the Michigan Legislature, and 

 occupying a similar position later on in connection with the National Con- 

 gress, afterward filling the position of Assistant I'ostmaster General, and 

 becoming Inspector of Internal Revenue for a large central district in the 

 West. He is a type of the result of acquiring a broad education outside 

 of college or university halls through contact with men and movements 

 and things. From the beginning of his editorial career in Michigan, he 

 has been unceasing in his expression of sorrow at the serious loss which 

 the State was sustaining through the reckless waste of its forest cover, 

 and has brought to bear upon the subject facts secured through wide re- 

 search and adaptation to our conditions. 



Ed. H. Stein is a German, who, after spending some of his early years 

 in this country, returned again to his native land, and from the stand- 

 point of an American, viewed the processes in his home country. He is a 

 student of American forestry conditions, and regrets more than anything 

 else connected with this country the reckless destruction of this great 

 heritage, with so feeble attempts at restoration. 



Frank W. Ball is a Michigan product. He was educated in Michigan 

 Li ni versify and spent some years abroad. He is a journalist, and widely 

 interested in economic conditions as affecting the industries of the coun- 

 try-. His father, who gave to Grand Eapids that beautiful piece of land- 

 scape known as John Ball Park, was a wide traveler and a keen observer, 

 and bequeathed to his son a great interest in Nature. The subject of this 

 brief sketch was one of the organizers of the Scientific Club, upon which 

 was builded the Kent Scientific Institute of Grand Bapids. Mr. Ball is 

 an omniverous reader and student of social problems, and during his 

 career as a journalist has aided materially in giving publicity to facts 

 and observations concerning the importance of forest cover. 



I'rof. E. E. Bogue is at the head of the Forestry Department of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College. He is an enthusiast in his work, and 

 has a faculty of infusing his own enthusiasm into the minds and purposes 

 of his students. He has a practical knack in connection with the educa- 

 tional side of the forestry movement, and has started a successful forest 

 nursery as a means of illustrating primary work in forestry to his classes. 

 He enjoys taking up special subjects like the one of which he treats in 

 this volume, and working them out. Any problem having a relationship 

 to the forest is interesting to him, and he is not satisfied until he has 

 worked out a solution. He will be a strong factor in the work of re- 

 habilitating IMichigan, and is a strong co-worker with the Michigan For- 

 estry Commission. 



H. B. Cannon is a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, and 

 has been engaged in experiment station work considerable of the time 

 since his graduation. He is a farmer, and one of the most attractive 

 Farmers' Institute lecturers in our State. He is especially interested in 

 topics which afCect the social conditions in rural communities, and re- 

 sponds promptly when called upon to perform any public-spirited duties 

 connected with the advancement of his State. 



Joseph B. AVare, who contributes an interesting article for this volume, 

 was born in Indiana, and came to Michigan in his early boyhood, and 



