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State Forests. 
In most States the area of forest land which will best serve the 
people of the States under state ownership and administration is 
much larger than the area now in state forests. In the extension 
of state forests, and in the better management of all state forest 
lands, the States face an immediate individual problem. Especi- 
ally 111 the LaEe States, vast areas of denuded lands, abandoned 
after logging destructive beyond all parallel, must be planted to 
trees long before they will even pay taxes. 
Education. 
The duty of teaching forest owners and users everywhere, how 
to conserve their forests, rests both with the Federal Government 
and with the States. The active cooperation of each State is es- 
sential. Many States present forest problems peculiar to then.- 
selves, which it is incumbent mainly upon each of them to solve. 
This can not be done without money, nor without trained men 
under a forest organization. 
WHERE WE MIGHT STAND. 
By reasonable thrift we can produce a constant timber supply 
beyond our present need, and with it conserve the usefulness of 
our streams for irrigation, water supply, navigation, and power. 
Under right management our forests will yield four times as 
much as now. We can reduce waste in the woods and in the 
mill at least one-third, with present as well as future profit. We 
can perpetuate the naval-stores industry. Preservative treatment 
will reduce by one-fifth the quantity of timber used in the water 
or in the ground. We can practically stop forest fires at a total 
yearly cost of one-fifth the value of the standing timber burned 
each year. 
We shall suffer for timber to meet our needs until our forests 
have had time to grow again. But if we act vigorously and at 
once we shall escape permanent timber scarcity. 
INDEX— VOLUME VI. 
This number of the Forester is accompanied by the title page 
and index for Volume VI., covering the calendar year 1909. The 
index has been compiled by the retiring editor, Mr. Feopold G. 
Blackman. 
