580 HOW DOES MAN CONSERVE HIS RESOURCES? 



western Europe. Our present forests are rapidly decreasing, due 

 to the demands of an increasing population, a woeful neglect on 

 the part of the owners of the land, and wastefulness on the part of 

 cutters and users alike. 



In some parts of Central Europe, the value of the forests to the 

 country was recognized as early as 1300 a.d., and many towns 

 consequently bought up the surrounding forests. The city of 

 Zurich has owned forests in its vicinity for 600 years and has found 

 them a profitable investment. Europe has long led the way in 

 showing other countries how to care for forests and how to make 

 them pay. In our country we have a Forest Service in the De- 

 partment of Agriculture which, with numerous state and university 



Schools of Forestry, is 

 teaching the people of 

 this country the best 

 methods for the pres- 

 ervation of our forests. 

 TheFederal Government 

 has set aside a number 

 of tracts of mountain 

 forest, principally in the 

 western states and 

 Alaska, which are under 

 the control of the Na- 

 tional Forest Service. 

 These National Forest 

 preserves have at the 

 present time an area of 

 about 170,000,000 acres, 

 an area greater than the 

 total area of the New 

 England States, New 

 York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, 

 and West Virginia. In addition to this there are almost 25,000,000 

 acres privately owned that are within the National Forest areas. 

 New York has established for the same purposes the Adirondacks, 

 the Catskill Mountain, and other Forest Preserves, with 2,000,000 



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 Is this good f orestation ? Why ? 



