422 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 



practical forestry will naturally be impossible. This clause entails an annual loss to 

 the State equal to the amount of timber which goes to waste each year. It cuts off 

 entirely what might be made an important resource, and it does not tend to the 

 improvement of the forest itself. When it was passed, there was some reason to fear 

 that if lumbering were once begun upon the Preserve, it might be difficult to regulate 

 it. The State is now in a position, however, to base the management upon conserva- 

 tive methods and to see that they are carried out. 



