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[Dec. i, 1906. 
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the race. Dread of the forest, its incentive to 
achievements, the sense that within it all things 
good and evil were to be found and treasured or 
encountered and overcome, have left an indelible 
impress in the minds and hearts of men. 
In primitive days, when the business and risks 
of life were over for the day, the stern and im¬ 
pressive realities could be rehearsed by the hun¬ 
ter and his children in the mimic world of play. 
Nowadays, the ordeals of our forest ancestors 
have become all play. Hunting, picnicking, canoe¬ 
ing, fishing, tramping, the tent life and the roar¬ 
ing camp fire, are all survivals of the life of the 
Forest Age, reminiscences coursing in the very 
blood of our civilization and carrying us back 
to the times when danger was a part of the day’s 
work and successful craft against bird and beast 
and fish was the first condition of existence. 
Recreation in the forests is the pleasant recall, 
in imagination, of a life vivid, fresh, free, and 
heroic. This life, now lost to us in the humdrum 
barter of the market place, may be brought back 
by the power of money, to amuse and invigorate 
and thrill us yet in our short hours of leisure 
and liberty. 
How highly this reversion to the old life is 
treasured may appropriately be measured, in 
these times, by the sacrifices men make, the money 
they spend, for a summer's outing beside forest 
and stream. In New Hampshire, for instance, 
about half a million dollars are spent each year 
by the summer visitors, whose choice of this 
region is based upon its fine woodlands and lakes. 
Of the 174,280 persons spending their summer 
there, in the latest year for which figures are 
at hand, only about one-tenth (20.352) occupied 
cottages for the season, while a third remained 
but a week or so, and more than half (95,706) 
remained less than a single w T eek. The cash 
received from these people, in the same year, was 
almost $5,000,000, and the total amount of this 
business added to' the capital invested in sum¬ 
mer resort property exceeded $10,000,000. 
Had the forests been destroyed or disfigured 
by wasteful logging, probably not one cent of this 
large income to the State would ever have been 
spent. Common sense, not sentiment, must make 
the strongest protest against any use of the New 
Hampshire forests, save one consistent with re¬ 
taining forever the attractive power of the whole 
region for those seeking recreation. Of course, 
this “summer people” revenue is only a sub¬ 
sidiary affair in a business sense. The forests 
are chiefly valuable there, as elsewhere, for their 
ability to supply use and profit in the concrete 
of wood nroducts. But the two values, the com¬ 
mercial and the pleasurable, may be secured to¬ 
gether. The farmer whose yearly ’income is 
greatly augmented by the recreation his guests 
are sure to find in the forest which he owns, need 
not withhold an ax altogether. His woodlot may 
be made to pay by oft-repeated cuttings which 
yield wood for home use or for market, without 
so thinning the stand as to mar the shade or 
pleasantness of the picnic grounds. Besides, by 
clearing the woodlot, though the first returns 
would be greater, he would have to wait long for 
further revenue; not only would he, in effect, 
turn away the paying guest, but he would dis¬ 
count the future. 
Rules for the farmer's woodlot management 
in this region would be to avoid cutting of any 
kind during the summer outing season, to have 
strips of woods along the roads, to leave undis¬ 
turbed the favored picnic grounds or places of 
special interest, and. in generel, to avoid as far 
as possible, the clear cutting of any tract. 
The same principles hold true even more em¬ 
phatically of larger lumbering operations. These 
should go on; they yield a good part of the State 
revenue. But if pushed recklessly, as too often 
in the past, they will not merely invite their own 
end, but will put a stop to the quest for recrea¬ 
tion in the New Hampshire hills. Moderation, 
wise and foresighted lumbering, will preserve 
both the direct and the indirect sources of 
revenue, and time will constantly add to their 
amount. 
All this, which applies to the pocketbook alone, 
is important enough to lead to wise action with¬ 
out further discussion. But there is a broader 
argument of general policy which may be used 
in defense of the New Hampshire forests. Rec- 
