The Tomahawk., 1903-07-02
WQQDMAh, SPARE
A FEW 1REES.l

as in Northern MINNESOTA. there is
agreat abundance of various kinds
of thrifty timber, it is difficult to
make the people SEQ the impor-
tanee of preserving any OF that
valuable gift of nature for futuri-
ty. 1t is just like trying to make
Il spendthpiftsav his money when
he has more money than he knows
dow to handle in any OF the right
ways. TO them it looks like a
provision for q future generation,
therefore OF no CONCERN to those of
today. Unlike the wild game
preservation, which in this section
is matter of but the lite time. OF
the living today at best. The
young man here now may live to
see the last deer and moose in
these woods, and therefore he is
Interested to q degree in being
partly responsible tor the promul-
CATION or extinction of the noble
game.
If men could only be made to
see that the preservation of forests
would be q result to be appreciat-
ed far before tho extinction of
the present age, we belieyc there
would be a clamor for the cause.
And it is fact that within forty
years pine grove in the northern
counties will be 4 rare thing. The
same condition in northern Michi-
gan stands as q proof. Twenty
years ago Menomonee county was
a thick wildness such as ltaska
county was ten years ago. Today
they tell us Menomonee county is
a vast barren, grown to weeds or
stirred by the plow. What diff
ference in 80 short a time' Yet,
take Pine. Aitkin. or Crow Wing
counties in Minnesota and almost
the same result is apparent.
The News is not sentimental to
a poetic degree in this matter. 1t
has always opposed great park
schemes, and it does not believe in
putting too much good land i"
purely scenic. use; but would it
not be better to retain from the
axe and fame. jut d little. in patches
dotted here and there, OF. nature $
substantial green verdure for the
future, to show an inkling of what
we once had and what might have
been? Take the prescDt-which
would almost any man or woman
rather travel, the route from Lake
Superior to CrookstOn, or from
Superior towards Minneapolis
through the Hinkley fire swept
district! If he were not blind no
man would take the latter route
other reasons being equal. No
man has soul SO dim but that u
glance at beautiful landscape
will touch his feelings.
Taken aside from the profitable
ness of a state forestry perpetual
ton, the News is in favor of the
bill now in the state legislature
forthis purpose, and we ask every
resident to consider wisely their
action pro or con in this so far
unpopular move. We do not
want good land wasted by senti-
mental legislation, but we do want
some pine and agriculturally use
less land preserved and made use
of.
Speaking of the first appropria-
ton asked for the forestry bill,
the st. Paul Pioneer Pree says:
Observation-Disclosures one Of the
most progressive of states in the
slowly progressing movement re-
ward the adoption of measures for
the preservation of forest-cannot
afford to call a halt at this time by
refusing the small annual appro-
priation asked by the state for
estry board for the purchase Of
non-agricultural lands, and to en-
able the board to replant the thou
sand acres donated by the late
Gov. Pillsbury. With this APP
preparation available beginning
can be made in a work of meal
culable Importance, the merit of
which will more and more COM
mend itself as it progresses and as
the probable outcome becomes APP
parent. The amount asked for is
only 800, 900. Yetits expenditure
as proposed would accomplish a
hundred times as much good for
the state as the additional fish
hatchery, which some members
would establish at a cost of from
$50, 900 o S75. 600. The pre- sent
hatchery is meeting all the reason
able requirements of the state in
the propagation of food fishes.
Nothing at all, on the contrary, is
being done to meet its vastly