The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-01-10

abundance, he is happy and comfor
= able; If they lack, he must take h
rest, and move on to more favore
: localities. These two requisites al
wood and water.
And, curiously enough, these tw
necessities of mans abiding Deepen
. absolutely one on the other. Witt
out rainfall the forests will not grow
Without the forests the rainfall is dc
structive rather than beneficient. /
naked country-whether artificial
ly or naturally so-the water come
in great torrential floods, followe
by droughts. A covering of forest
on the other hand, retains the rain
fall as would sponge, distributin,
1t slowly through regulated streams
holding it back against the needs 0
the dry season. Wherever the forests
have been cut away, we are treated
each spring to destructive floods, a.
has been many times proven in the
valleys of those great rivers draining
| the sites of the old pine forests in
the East. Contrariwise, in Califor.
MIA, where the necessities of irriga.
tion cause the people to pay great
attention to such matters, it has
been found by actual measurement
that the. stream-fow has increased
twenty-five per cent SINCE the estab-
lishment of efficient protection for
the forest cover.
Since these things are SO, it fol-
lows naturally that sooner or later
nations would see through the haze
of immediate expediency to the vital
truth, forced home boldly on the in
dividual camper. From this realiza-
ton would come a system of for
estry"
b Taking hold before it is too late"
is a sub-heading in this article that
is reminder of various trips
through the mountains of Tennessee
and western North Carolina where
there was only a Birdie way to follow
and where an immense tree would be
ruthlesly hewn down for some trivial
purpose, maybe to discommode some
hated neighbor who was to travel
over the way after dark-and it is
truly dark in those dense woods
this tree would be felled directly
across the path and the traveller COM
PEELED to stop until daylight came to
enable him to find his way around
this immense long giant of the forest.
This condition would remain until
some one happened along who was
an ak, when he would cut
out portion lying directly in the
way, sufficiently low to enable a
horse, trained to this mountain
climbing, to jump over with rider
md pack. The fallen tree soon falls
% decay because of the long rains
md otherwise damp atmospheric
,aused by heavy and continuous fogs.
Mr. White continues:
"Only few years ago the forest
vas eour enemy here in America
every step of the way must be clear
ID by the pioneers ak and guarded
~ his rifle. A tree was a foe to be
lot rid of expeditiously as possible.
20 ingrained and inherited hostility s
ucceeded Indifference, which is but
ust beginning to yield ground to c
more enlightened sentiment. This
heightened sentiment further en-
ounters determined and unscrupu-
BUS opposition from the land-grab- G
ers, the lumber stealers, the can S
idates for free grazing, and all the
est of the various pirates and para II
ties that prey upon and cling to the II
lch spoils of our public domain. This p
position has this year determined :"
, make it's stand. BY all means of u
,phistry and misrepresentation it is o
to befog the issue in the Il
lblic mind. 1t is matter, very lit is
ally, of self-preservation, that the u
lblic should comprehend the mo- p'
yes that guide the issue. al
al
he Damage One Wrong Word Did. D,
National forestry in this country n
,gan with Cleveland's administra- W
On, when that executive, under au- M
GRITTY from Congress, set aside OF
rtain forests from the national
nds. The act was a wise one, su
by an unfortunate bap- fiji
NAL name. The new creations were TO
rmed Forest Reserves; and on the at
,rd reserve the Representatives of
Q grabbers have been building their lie.
position ever since. Recently the I'M
lcial title has been changed to Sc
ational Forests more accurately I'M
scriptive term. da