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those who seek a woodland home or natural sanitarium. The Adirondack and 

 Catskill regions contain to-day hundreds of thousands of acres that have been 

 lumbered, but which are covered with dense forests that to an unpracticed eye reveal 

 no trace of timber cutting, and which preserve their grand scenery unimpaired. 



Could our woodlands be lumbered under some more conservative methods, could 

 the annual cutting be restricted in quantity to that of the annual growth, as is now 

 proposed for the State forests, then there would always be a constant supply. The 



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yield would be much smaller, but it would be perpetual ; and the mills dependent on 

 this product would have a permanent, solid basis on which to conduct their business. 



It hardly seems necessary at this late day to argue in favor of harvesting the forest 

 crop, instead of leaving the matured timber to fall from decay, blight or storms. 

 Under a definite forestry system, with its approved and successful methods, our 

 forests can be maintained perpetually and at the same time be made to furnish a 

 constant revenue to the State. To neglect the permanent income available from the 

 Forest Preserve is to ignore one of the great factors of our political economy. 



