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Page 9 - The very existence of lumbering, of course — and lumbering is the fourth great industry of the United States — depends upon the success of our work as a nation in putting practical forestry into effective operation.
Page 8 - FIRST and foremost, you can never afford to forget for one moment what is the object of our forest policy. That object is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself ; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land policy of the United States, is the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making of our...
Page 9 - The forest problem is in many ways the most vital internal problem in the United States. The more closely this statement is examined the more evident its truth becomes.
Page 9 - You must convince the people of the truth — and it is the truth — that the success of home makers depends in the long run upon the wisdom with which the nation takes care of its forests. That seems a strong statement, but it is none too strong. You yourselves have got to keep this practical object before your mind; to remember that a forest which contributes nothing to the wealth, progress, or safety of the country is of no interest to the Government and should be of little interest to the forester....
Page 9 - Your attention must be directed to the preservation of the forests, not as an end in itself, but as a means of preserving the prosperity of the Nation. * * * In the arid region of the West agriculture depends first of all upon the available water supply. In such a region forest protection alone can maintain the stream flow necessary for irrigation and can prevent the great and destructive floods so ruinous to communities farther down the same streams.
Page 8 - You can start a prosperous home by destroying the forests, but you can not keep it prosperous that way. And you are going to be able to make that policy permanently the policy of the country only in so far as you are able to make the people at large, and, above all, the people concretely interested in the results in the different localities, appreciative of what it means. Impress upon them the full recognition of the value of its policy, and make them earnest and zealous adherents of it.
Page 10 - ... fact; the railroads especially, managed as they are by men who are compelled to look ahead, who are obliged by the very nature of their profession to possess a keen insight into the future, have awakened to a clearer realization of the vast importance of the economic use both of timber and of forests. Even the grazing industry, as it is carried on in the great West, which might at first sight appear to have little relation to forestry, is nevertheless closely related to it, because great areas...
Page 80 - These will go in time to be received, with your greetings, on Christmas Day, and Bird-Lore will follow, as published, throughout the year. A valuable present, easily made, whether to a friend or to yourself.
Page 11 - ... should understand what those fellow-men are, and not merely what they are thought to be by people who live in the closet or the parlor. You have got to know who the men are with whom you are to work, how they feel, how far you can go, when you have to stop, when it is both safe and necessary to push on. I believe that the foresters of the United States will create a more effective system of forestry than we have yet seen. If not, gentlemen, if you do not, I shall feel that you have fallen behind...
Page 24 - Devoted to the encouragement of the study of Nature in her varied aspects — of the Rocks, the Birds, the Flowers, and all the multitude of living things that crawl, or swim, or walk, or fly.