W3H 



NEW JERSEY 



Agricultural Experiment Stations 



BULLETIN 202 



APRIL 25, 1907. 



Forest Trees of New Jersey. 



BY 



Byron D. Halsted. 



During the past few years the subject of forestry has become one 

 of rapidly growing importance. Long before this, those best able 

 to judge were aware of the fact that the wood industry in the 

 United States was upon the decline, largely from the sheer lack of 

 knowledge, combined with a spirit of commercialism upon the part 

 of those engaged in the timber trade. As a result, the people in 

 general are now feeling the effects of a dearth of lumber and the 

 general unbalance which always must come to a country with its 

 native woodlands cleared by ax and fires, to say nothing of the 

 immeasurable loss in the beauty of the landscape of mountain, hills 

 and streams. 



Our own State, while not included in the leading forest areas 

 of the country, has suffered its share in this destruction, and it is 

 n pleasure to recall that its government has in many ways en- 

 deavored to awaken in its people a true sense of the importance 

 of developing and preserving in forests large tracts that, almost 

 annually, are subjected to the injurious or ruinous effects of fires. 

 By means of public lectures, conventions, the press, &c, the value 

 of the forest industry has been proclaimed. It is a pleasure to feel 

 that the subject is at present taking more definite form and a 

 Forest Commission* is organized and is working in full sympathy 



* State Board of Forest Park Reservation Commissioners. (See Digest of 

 Law. page 51.) 



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