Annual Report Of The State Forester Of Wisconsin PDF Download

Excerpt from First Annual Report of the State Forester of Wisconsin 1906 Only a few years ago Wisconsin was one of the greatest timber states in this country and even the lumbermen and woodsmen, who were directly and personally interested in the supply of tim ber, could not realize that the pineries which seemed so vast would in a few years he a thing of the past. But thousands of axemen were cutting their way on all sides into the great virgin forests and back of them, fed by their slashings, came the arch enemy fire and completed the devastation, until today, where the great pines once stood, are vast areas of burned over cuttings. These unproductive wastes should be a matter of concern, not alone to the owner and county in which they lie, but to the whole state as well, for forests are crops just as much as wheat or corn and although they take a long time to mature, still, if managed systematically and conservatively, they will furnish annually a supply of mature timber and thus save to the state the many in dustries which depend upon the forests for their raw material. The aims of forestry are manifold, but the two most important are to conserve the forests by wise use and protect the water supply and, keeping these important points in mind, it is to be hoped that the state will pursue a broad forest policy and grad ually acquire large forest reserves which will protect the head waters oi the rivers and important streams. If the state grad ually purchases large areas of natural forest land, restocking all denuded areas as soon as the slash is destroyed, it will not only be building prosperity for the future, but can confidently count on receiving a very generous return on the investment in the shape of mature timber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.