TIMBER GROWING AND LOGGING PRACTICE 35 
Table 2. — Areas of State forests 
State 1 
Total area 
of forest 
land in 
State 
Area of forest land 
in State forests 
State i 
Total area 
of forest 
land in 
State 
Area of forest land 
in State forests 
Acres 
3, 300. 000 
500.000 
1. 000. 000 
9. 000. 000 
18, 400, 000 
Acres 
Per cent 
0.0 
.0 
.35 
.04 
1.83 
Minnesota 
Acres 
20. 900. 000 
13, 000, 000 
1, 100. 000 
10, 000. 000 
16. 565, 000 
Acres 
350.000 
Per cent 
1.68 
.0 
3,547 
3,624 
333,000 
Ohio 
Tennessee 
Wisconsin 
33. 773 
3.06 
Kentucky 
Michigan 
.0 
97,000 
.59 
i Forested areas and State forest areas for Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are given in full. How- 
ever, about SO per cent of the forest land in Minnesota and Michigan, and 70 per cent of that in Wisconsin, 
is of a totally different tvpe from that of the central hardwoods and lies outside the region here discussed 
(see fig. 1) . The State forest areas are somewhat similarly distributed, the greater portion lying in what is 
known as the Lake States region. 
FOREST INVESTIGATIONS 
There is much to be learned about the timber of this region, its 
rates of growth, the growing conditions under which it thrives best, 
the methods which should be followed in its management, the 
diseases and insects which attack it and how to combat them, and a 
great many related subjects. This suggests the need for a well- 
manned and equipped forest research station which would cover this 
field for the entire region and could cooperate with the State forestry 
officers and others in obtaining data on the stands of timber in each 
State, the disposal and utilization of timber products, and other sub- 
jects of general economic interest. 
STATE FORESTERS 
A State forester or similar officer is essential in every State to 
handle the State-owned timberlands, administer the forest-protection 
activities, produce and sell small forest trees, assist the private 
owner in his problems of producing and marketing timber, and meet 
the great demands for forestry information from people within the 
State. With the exception of Arkansas, each of the States in this 
region now employs a State forester. 
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TIMBERLAND OWNER AND THE 
PUBLIC 
The timberiand owner who wishes merely to keep his land in a 
reasonably productive condition, as has been shown, need observe but 
two general measures. He must discontinue pasturing the woods to 
the extent now the custom on 75 per cent of the small farm woods 
of the region; and he must prevent the forest fires now common in 
the hilly sections of southern Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, the highland 
rim of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the Ozarks of Missouri and 
Arkansas. With these two measures in force there will be no ques- 
tion about timberiand being productive. With fires and heavy pas- 
turing eliminated it is believed that the timberiand of the central 
hardwood region will produce at least 50 per cent more timber 
than when subjected to these influences. This increase would be 
