4 THE AUDUBON: B U.L LU Evie 
Illinois Lumbering and Forestry 
Reprinted by permission from Lumber World Review, Nov. 10, 1921 
It is hard to trace the origin and development of the for- 
estry idea in Illinois; but no doubt it started as early as 1878, 
when Dr. Burrill, of the Department of Horticulture, secured 
a small appropriation from the legislature to try out a planting 
of the various hardwood and softwood trees at Urbana, this 
tract being still known as “The Forestry,” serving now more 
as a windbreak and small park than as an experimental planta- 
tion. 
In 1908 forestry interest progressed so far as to result in 
a preliminary survey of the state, covering some twenty-five 
counties. It was carried out by a cooperative agreement be- 
tween the U. S. For- 
est Service, which 
furnished two men 
for the field work, 
and the Natural Hist- 
ory Survey. The re- 
sults were published 
as a bulletin of the 
Survey, “Forest Con- 
ditions in Illinois,” 
and reviewers speak 
very highly of this 
publication by Hall 
and Ingall, which un- 
fortunately was not 
accOmpant?¢é4a 
by a map of forested regions of the state, because of a lack of 
funds. The measures advocated as a forest policy for the state 
in this bulletin were fully ten years in advance of its time. 
A forester has been at “large in the state’ for two years, 
and by an addition to the last biennial budget of the Natural 
History Survey, three others have recently been added, with 
full authority to fall over the southern Ozarks providing they 
can bring back some detailed information about forest con- 
ditions there and elsewhere. For the information of any per- 
son who has never struck Illinois south of the corn belt, the 
original maps of the state show that at least thirty per cent of 
the state was once covered with trees. The timber belts and 
the rivers then formed the main lines of travel, the inhabitants 
living in the timber, developing woodlots there, and from these 
as base gradually they brought under cultivation the prairies 
which have since made us famous. Even now there are parts 
of the state where this combination should still prevail—timber 
in the hills, orchards on the slopes, and farming in the fertile 
and often narrow valleys. 

Photo by R. B. Miller 
A SMALL PORTABLE MILL NEAR ALTO PASS 
