Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-03
THE CARE OF TREES
Preservation of Forests Attracting
General Public Attention.
INTEREST OF The GOVERNMENT
Important Work of the Department
of Agriculture.
VALUABLE INSTRUCTIONS

The recent reorganization of several
divisions of the Agricultural Department,
preparatory to the new work of the fiscal
year, just begun, has attracted a great
deal of attention to a branch of govern
ment effort which has come to be recog-
nized as exceedingly valuable.
When the division of forestry of that
department was advanced to bureau July
! last step was taken which means the
accomplishment of a vast amount of work
of a more determined and effective nature
than that which has heretofore been per-
formed in the direction of the preservation
of the American forest. People generally
in years past have been somewhat apa-
thetic in the matter but there is now quite
universal realization that American trees
must be protected or regrown, else the vast
lumber supply of this nation, carried by
messengers of the seas to almost every
civilized point on the globe will become
extinct.
Some of the varieties of American tim
Der already bid fair to become exhausted.
The demand for them is immense. Others
are being so generally called for by COM
mercial centers that their extinction is
only a matter of time if steps are not taken
to replace the growth. The efforts of the
forestry division of the Agricultural De-
partment is to encourage the protection and
recultiyation of trees and to prevent the
coming of a time when the United States
would be denuded of its forests-a loss that
would not only mean losses of millions OF
dollars. but a Disagreement and blight of
nature that would be intolerable.
The Plan for Protection.
officials Of the forestry bureau are busy
at work on plan outlined to protect the
tree. Mr.. Clifford Pinchot is at the head
of this most important bureau, and under
Of ri n
have been framed prescribing the most
practical methods of avoiding forest de-
structon and pointing out the proper
methods for the replacement or timber al
ready removed.
During the last ten years the Department
of Agriculture, through this bureau, has
done everything within it's power to inter
est the people In this problem of protection
and to point out the dire effects of indiffer-
ence in the matter, and now it's labors are
beginning to bear fruit.
Fifty years ago the timber supply Of the
country was estimated as well nigh mex
haustible. But the incessant drain which
has been made by the wood-using world
during that time has proven that even the
vast resources Of lumber have their limits
and that within a comparatively snort
time, unless precautions are taken, they
will have been depleted. The two circu-
lars now being disseminated by the for
estry bureau are deemed to be of great
value to those having the interests OF the
forest at heart.
Public Sentiment Awakening.
An official OF the forestry bureau III
speaking of the matter to Star reporter
said:
public sentiment toward forest preser-
walton is being thoroughly awakened, and
It has now reached that state wherein land
owners throughout the nation are applying
to this bureau for advice as to what must
be done. One of the circulars we are send
Two 10 dire tod n
explaining to them how their property can
be wooded and the other circular Is In
tended for the information of owners OF
timber tracts In the eastern ana western
timber regions and contains advice and
instructions comprising working plans
which enable owners to manage their for
ests with a view to maintaining constant
supply of timber. The timber is out ac-
cording to our plans-a limit being placed
upon the amount felled-and consequently
owners, under the proposed system, Will
have a continued though somewhat re-
stricted supply on hand instead OF sud
den and fatal exhaustion.
1.-THE United States produces many diner
ent kinds of wood available In the chan-
nels of commerce, the most important be-
ing white pine, red pine. long-leaf pine.
short-leaf pine. Cuban pine loblolly pine
bull pine, sugar pine black spruce. white
spruce. engleman spruce. Sitka spruce,
whit fir. balsam fir, great silver fir, noble
fir, amabis fir, Douglas spruce hemlock,
bald cypress. tamarack. western larch, red
junipe. white cedar. Port Oxford cedar,
yellow cedar. incense cedar redwood, white
oak. cow oak, chinquapin oak, live oak, tam
bark oak. chestnut oak, burr oak. post oak,
red oak, black oak. Spanish oak, water oak,
beech. chestnut, black walnut, butternut,
shagbark hickory, bitternut. mockernut,
shellbark hickory. pecan, black cherry,
sweet gum. locust. blackberry, red null
berry. magnolia. cucumber tree, tulip tree.
hardy catapa, white ash, black ash, green
ash blue ash Oregon ash, sugar maple,
silver maple, red maple box elder. white
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low birch, sweet birch, river birch. canoe
birch. white birch Eastwood. sycamore,
cottonwood, large-tooth aspen and plain
aspen. These varieties of trees that
furnish the wood that is most important In
forestry. and which 1t is intended to save
or rather reproduce as far as possible
Enormous Demand for Pine.
There are two kinds of wood upon the
. supply of which there is an enormous de-
mand. They are the white pine Of the New
England and great lake region and tie yell
low pine of the south If the present de-
rnand for these kinds of wood is maintained
which It will be- no doubt-the trees To-
Gated in the vast tracts now being deruded
must either be regrown else the sup
ply will exhaust itself.
The principal forest regions Of the east
comprised in the lake regions, North At
lantic states and also In the Ohio river
valley. the south Atlantic and gulf regions
extending to eastern Texas, have been
IarselN NePieleu OF tHeir tiinper supply.
The great white pine belt of the lake re-
gion has given up greater part of it's re-
sources through constant inroads Of ium-
bermen. The same is practically true in
the north Atlantic region.
The great yellow pine belt of the south
Atlantic and gulf coast states has been sim
Harry treated. The commercial supplies
which have been secured from this belt In
years past have been important factors in
assisting In the denudation of large
amounts Of valuable young and old long
leaf pine trees. The destructive methods
OF trappers. who seek the turpentine have
not only worked great destruction to the
trees. so far as their future growth Is CON
cerned, but have left the trunks OF the
pines so treated in such infiammable
state that the slightest blazes started in the
belt have developed into CONGREGATIONS de-
stroytng immense quantities Of trees. When
the tappers leave their prey, after having
extracted the product of the turpentine
trees, as result of the process of treat
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