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State. It has a department of forestry which ranks in recognized 

 importance with those of public instruction, agriculture, and internal 

 affairs. * * * It may be safely said that up to this time no legis- 

 lature has ever denied what the forest officials of the State suggested, 

 nor have we ever had a governor who failed most cordially and fully 

 to support the forestry movement since it took its present direction. 

 ;]t :^ « r^Y^Q outlook for forestry in Pennsylvania is hopeful. Some 

 of our laws may be improved, but we have no legal or constitutional 

 restrictions upon us which interfere with the development of con- 

 servative forestry ideas or plans. 



HERMANN VON SCHRENK, 



Bureau of Forestry. 



* * * There is probably no one to-day who does not believe that 

 timber preservation in one form or another pays. The extent to which 

 such preservation will pay will depend upon the cost of the wood, 

 the cost of renewal, and the cost of the treatment. * * * Treated 

 timber in almost every respect is cheaper in the long run than un- 

 treated timber; furthermore, the better treatments, although more 

 expensive at first, are much cheaper in the long run. 



GIFFORD PINCHOT, 



Forester, XT. S. Department of Agriculture. 



* * * We recognize that the bulk of our forests are now and 

 must always remain in the hands of private owners; that it is only 

 as the private owner, large or small, becomes interested in forestry 

 and carries out its practical principles, that we shall succeed in intro- 

 ducing forestry into the United States. It should be remembered by 

 every forester, and every man interested in forestry, that the wood- 

 lands in farms are about three times as great in extent as all the 

 national forest reserves, and that the reserves are almost insignificant 

 when compared with the vast area of timberland, the millions upon 

 millions of acres, which are owned by lumbermen in larger or smaller 

 holdings, by railroads, or by men of various occupations who control 

 the timberlands upon which the prosperity of this whole country 

 depends. This is to be remembered, that the forests of the private 

 owners will have to be set in order if the overwhelming calamity of a 

 timber famine is to be kept from this nation. * * * Xhe exten- 

 sion of the present forest area, by restocking cut-over lands and by 

 making plantations where there are no forests, is one of the chief 

 duties of the present moment. This will be accomplished by helping 

 the States to formulate their own policies, by av:'tive cooperation in 

 studying the local situation in each, and by recommending the best 



