



importance is little appreciated, even in the communities which will mos 
directly benefit. 
52. Forestry Division, Illinois has no state forests, although there is 
both a state Forester in the conservation department at Springfield and an 
xtension forester in the Natural History Survey at the State University. 
These men have done valuable investigative and educational work, but the 
formulation and execution of a state forest program calls for a continuity 
of policy and a desire for long-time as well as short-time results which 
cannot exist with the conservation department organized as it now is. 
The rudiments of a fire control organization have been built up 
in southern Illinois, but financial support has been sporadic, as is nasties 
ally the case in an unstable department. 
The forestry apppopriation is understood to have been recently cut 
in half, 
In a broad way, forestry leadership by the state has gone about as 
far as it cm under an unstable department. 
There is a strong interest in actual forestry practice in certain 
localities. The Burlington Basket. Company has been profitably raising tim- 
ber on the Mississippi overflow islands for many years (incidentally off- 
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setting its carrying costs by a substantial income from game rentals), =. 
Karraker is practicing forestry on his lands in Union County, held to pro- 
duce raw material for his box-veneer plant at Jonesboro. He has no doubts 
about it being the most profitable way to handle his timber. In both these 
instances the fact stands out that the point of view is what counts most. 
These men make it profitable mostly because they want it’ to be. 


