The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-06-05
WHAT FORESTRY HAS DONE

The Department OF Agriculture has issued pamphlet
bearing this title which shows in brief space what has
been done other countries for preservation and renewal
of forests. The exhibit may be taken indication
suggestion Of what may be done and should be done
country, SAYS the Oregonian.
In Of Europe the conditions and changes
have been very much finding them in own
country First the forests abundant be in
the way and either neglected destroyed Then
the borders Of forests receded from places where wood
needed the forests began be spared and protected
Next the increasing need OF wood led TO the recognition
Of the forest a crop which be harvested and there
fore should be made 70 grow again. The last stage is
that of systematic forestry where the forest saeguared
to to yield a constant maximum year after year We
Of the United States have passed through the first stage
Of this movement, and entering the last In
Western Oregon still destroying timber, to get it
out Of the way Of agriculture.
This pamphlet informs us that the German Empire
has 3s00O000 Of forest Of which the larger part
directly under the Of the state Private persons
have large holdings but these carefully administered
also for the preservation Of the timber Each Of the
German federation administers its forests but Prussia
and Saxony have been the successful and their
agement yields handsome profit Prussia has 100000
acres and wood cut than the forest produces
The rate Of production has been increasing for many years
In 1880 twenty cubic feet per 1t has gradually
increased until in 1904 it sixyfve cubic feet per acre
Taking the whole empire the production of timber inl
Germany since 1880 has increased than threefod
and IN ftyour years the money return from acreage
Of forest has increased sevenfold
France imports annually S3O00OO00 worth of wood
The state forests yield Sis per and cost o5 cents
annually The best managed state forests yield about
forty cubic feet of timber annually which much below
the German yield But the destruction caused by floods
and winds has been greatly decreased However the work
of refoesting still going on and expected that $50
100000 will be spent before it is complete Austria
large exporter Of wood but forestry successfully
pracced 90 per cent Of all the public forests and 81
per cent OF the private forests Hungary also large
exporter but the cut is regulated and is believed be
less than the wood actually produced Russia has an
immense extent of woodland, which the government
IN recent years has begun TO extend protection.
Italy, though a mountainous country, poor in tim
berafer the ravages of thirty centuries but the central
o.
ing fast and far possible the work of reoresation
Yet much Of the mountain land wholly unproductive
and, indeed, beyond reclamation
The history Of forestry in old countries shows that
we must attend to preservation and reproduction of for
ests own and further that private initiative and
interest are not sufficient to prevent and destruction
In other words government must use its authority with
in countries Of the Old World we shall soon find
our wood practically exhausted