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ioned saw we would still have had white pine to sell. Working with 

 steam and electricity^, we went far beyond the mark, * * * We 

 have awakened, and the State of Michigan has now a forestry com- 

 mission which looks after the forest interests of the State. It is 

 teaching its young men to take care of the woods at its two great in- 

 stitutions — the university and the agricultural college. * * * 

 The business men of every city in the State are as one in seeing that 

 something must be done right away, and that the only question is, 

 What shall we do ? 



L. H. PAMMEL, 



Professor of Botany, Iowa College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



* * * The free use of our public domain for everyone destroys 

 the range to such an extent that the sheep men are forced to use the 

 forest areas. Free range should be abolished. * ♦ * jj^ ^1^^ 3I|-^ 

 ter Koot Forest Reserve, where grazing is carefully regulated, the 

 water supply from the mountains is scarcely diminished, although 

 larger quantities of water are used than formerly. The most impor- 

 tant factor to be observed in this reserve is that the young trees are 

 coming up everywhere in great numbers. * * * In the Uintah 

 Forest Reserve there can be no doubt that the most important factor 

 in diminishing the water supply is injudicious grazing. 



REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, 



Chaplain of the United States Senate. 



I have slept under pine trees which were high, tall, and beautiful 

 when North America was discovered. I went up through the same 

 region two years ago with a friend and found my pine trees all gone 

 and sumach and blackberry bushes in their places. It makes a man 

 cry to see it. Now we are before Congress because we want Congress 

 to preserve the forests for 50 square miles in that region. I desire 

 that my boy's boy's boy's boys and girls two centuries hence shall see 

 such pine trees as I saw in 1841. 



WILLIAM S. HARVEY, 



Delegate from Pennsylvania. 



The Appalachian Forest Reservation, the purchase of which has 

 been indorsed and advised by commercial bodies throughout New 

 England and the East, by various forest associations, and by the 

 National Board of Trade, is of vital interest to the whole j)eople. 

 The Southern States have more than 200 millions of dollars invested 

 in cotton mills. These cotton mills are in a large measure dependent 

 upon water power. * * * The taking of the forest cover from 



