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large lumber States on the Great Lakes 
have been too much for the great forests 
and the amount available for cutting is 
getting lower each year. The decad¬ 
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drop in the white pine cut during the 
past ten years. Michigan’s forests of 
this valuable tree were the richest in the 
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ment is shown by the report that the cut 
of white pine in Michigan last year was 
only one-fourth of what it was in 1899, 
only eight years before. 
I In lumbering the forests no thought 
was given to anything but immediate 
money returns, and consequently the 
countless fires running over the land, 
after the timber was stripped, have 
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6,000,000 acres, or nearly one-sixth of 
the State of Michigan, known as the 
“pine barrens,” have been thrown on 
the delinquent tax list and are a burden 
to the people. Under proper forest 
management this land would have 
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Wisconsin as in Michigan. In Minne¬ 
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largest amount of virgin white pine, the 
decrease in the same period was nearly 
one-third. 
Taking the three States together, pine 
constituted nearly forty-six per cent 
of the total lumber production in 1907, 
hemlock a little more than twenty- 
seven per cent and maple ten per cent, 
the balance being made up mostly of 
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oak, spruce, ash, and cedar, in the order 
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The pine is mostly white and Nor¬ 
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Along with this great decrease in pine, 
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than one-fifth as much oak was cut in 
the Lake States last year, for instance, 
as in 1899, while the cut of elm and ash 
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