Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-17

at times" we are getting real
timber growth.
Pennsylvania has more than a
million acres Of state forest: The
purchase by states of forest
areas is increasing, but the really
effective forestry policy must be
directed mainly towards private
ly-owned areas, since the nation
and the states will never own
more than a fraction of the whole
The federal department is with
North Carolina in its efforts to
have a federal experiment sta
ton located in the west, which
will be all the while developing,
in a systematic way, information
about growing and using forest.
There are today communes in
France" said Mr.. Woolsey,
which have no local taxation be-
cause the revenues from forest
property secured by their fore
fathers pay the communal bills.
At the same time these forests
form a link in the national tim
Der bearing areas so vital for
economic production and soil pro-
duction," Said he:
1.-THE Appalachian mountains
are suited for forest production
and for a great national play
ground. If 10000 people daily
visit the Wienerwold near Wen
ma then 10 years from now there
will be a million or more in these
hills, seeking health and recre-
alton. Will these people count
enance forest destruction?
The people of North Carolina
must be foresighted. You must
insist on liberal appropriations
for fire protection, for technical
cooperation, and for the forestry
measures advocated by the state
forester, and Colonel Pratt. 1t
is a civic duty to urge your rep.
resentatives in Congress to Sc
cure large federal appropriations
for cooperative fire protection
and for the establishment Of ex-
pertinent stations, for if our for
est production is to be permanent
we must base our silvical man.
agement on sound technique.
Those who invest in forestry |
must be given even more accu-
rate and detailed advice than the
farmer secures today from the
farm experiment stations. For
the errors of a forester may not
be discovered until the crop is
harvesteda century later"
1t would be we'll if every
thoughtful citizen in the state
could read these addresses. The
idea of systematic federal aid in |
forest protection we have no
doubt appeals to the Forestry !
association. 1t was only in this
way that a real start was made
toward spending money on an
adequate scale on highway con-
struction. Highway construction
and forest protection mean the
same things; they are means of
conserving and developing, for
this generation and for posterity
the natural wealth of the soil. |
They are alike, even, in having
each an incidental butts highly
valuable recreation aspect.
The time may he unpropitious
for securing the renewal of the
national appropriation for pur-
chase of forest lands, and for Sc
curing large-scale assistance to
the states in fire protection. But
the federal forest policy is so
based that surely these
things will be done sooner or
later.
The time is not going to be
propitious for asking the gener-
al assembly to furnish funds for
the proper care of the forests, or
for the purchase of additional
areas; but the conservationist
will simply do their duty, as
they always do, by presenting
the powerful facts on which
their appeal is based, as urgent
y as possible. -GreensboroD Daily
News.