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additional. This, with the Agricultural College reserve, makes 

 a total of atout 312,000 acres of state lands reserved for forestry 

 purposes in Michigan. 



The wanton destruction of much of the vast White Pine 

 forest of Michigan should be taken as a warning by those states 

 which themselves have not suffered a similar loss. Prof. Roth 

 in the ''Forest Reserve Manual/' asserts that "Michigan cut in 

 one year over 3,600 million feet of White Pine alone, ' ' and adds, 

 **The forests of this state supplied the people of our country 

 clear to Texas with this choice material and at the same time 

 called into existence the great wood working industries which 

 have built up our towns and our railways. ' ' A little further on 

 he says, ''Today the State of Michigan imports lumber; the 

 lumberyard of nearly every town in the state carries Yellow 

 Pine and Cypress from the South and shingles and other ma- 

 terials from the Pacific coast. ****** And all this great 

 waste of money for high priced lumber without any good cause, 

 for Michigan has lands in plenty where a good forest growth 

 would supply its people with all it needs and more beside, if 

 only fire and vandal were restricted and thus nature assisted 

 instead of opposed by man.*' 



On the other hand, the energy with which many of the 

 leading men of Michigan have undertaken the work of reclama- 

 tion of their denuded forest lands, and the helpful attitude 

 assumed by the common citizens of the state, have brought 

 about a condition that may well be held up as an example for 

 other states to follow. Under the direction of the competent 

 members of the Public Domain Commission and the skillful 

 work of the no less competent executives, an excellent system of 

 forestry has been developed and put in operation. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Previous to May, 1909, the principal forestry work in New 

 Hampshire was conducted by the state and the Government 

 Forest Service in co-operation. The published results of the 

 co-operative study began mth a report on forest conditions in 

 the White Mountains in 1903. This was followed in 1905 by a 



