The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-21
GOV. PARKS TO LAUNCH LOCAL
 FORESTS WEEK
Am erican Legion An nounces Plans for Ob-
 serving Forest Week

Local observance of American Forest Week, April 22-2s, which is sponsored by Afford John Brad ford Post of the American Le- zion, will be initiated Monday af- ternoon by Gov. George A. Parks, when he addresses the students of the Juneau public school at l o'clock. His subject will be "The Objects of American Forest Week"
 The Legionnaires have arranged for speeches at all schools on Gastineau Channel during the week. In addition a special win dow display will be exhibited at the Juneau Young Hardware Com pany, which will include an Alas. kan spruce, various kinds and grades of. timber and piece of petrified wood, relic of Alaskan forests of the pre-glacial age.
 Importance of Forests
 In a proclamation issued March 10. Gov. Parks, who is Territorial Chairman of the American Forest Week movement, called attention to the paramount importance of Alaska's forests, saying:
 Alaska is vitally interested in the utilization of it's forest and grazing lands. The future pros perity of our Territory depends in a large degree on our ability to derive the maximum yield from these resources in a manner which will not deplete nor destroy them. Our vast forests and large areas of grazing lands are almost untouched at present and there is yet time for us to adopt ade- quate measures for their protec- tion."
 In concluding, he urged "all the people of the Territory to join in the proper observance ef this week that thoughtful consideration be given to the problems involved in the preservation and perpetua- ton of our forests"
 Weisel to Speak
 Other speakers scheduled for talks during the week are G. F.. Weisel, Assistant Manager of Ju- neau Lumber Mills, M. l.. Merritt, Assistant District Forester, and k. M. Goddard, Assistant Execu- tive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission.
 MT. Weisel was Montana State Chairman for two years for Ameri- can Forest Week. He is an ex- perieneed timber man and fores- ter. His first talk will be made at the public school at 1 D. m. Wednesday on the subject, For ests as they affect your country and your individual future.' As an officer in the Forestry branch of the American Army in France, MT. Weisel had an opportunity to study the problems of lands long cut over and methods of dealing with them. His logging experi- enee in Wisconsin and Montana provided a similar opportunity. In his talk to the students he will tie these experiences into his ob- servations of Alaskan timber lands. On Friday, MT. Weisel will speak to the Chamber of Con- merce on the subject, Forest Eco monies as Affecting the Future of Alaska"
 Forests and Wild Life
 Monday, MT. Goddard will talk to the pupils in the local Indian school on "'rhe effects of forest and timber fires on game and land fur-bearing animals, and birds"
 Mir. Merritt, who is now in Ket chikan, is expected to return in time to address the students of the local Parochial school and the Douglas public school. The dates and subjects of these addresses have not been definitely fixed. In case he should not return in time to take part in the observance some other speaker will be ob tained.
 Trees and History
 A striking visualization of the age of trees will be the aim of the central object in the American Legions window display in the store-room of the JuneauYouns Hardware Company. This will bt the butt section of Sitka spruce four and one-half feet in diameter
 Foresters, by check of the annual growth rings, estimate thai the tree from which it was cut was year-old sprout, shooting its way upward in the shadows of 3 then mature forest long since de cayed and returned to the earth from which it sprang, when Go mmbus first viewed the new world. If was a lusty sapling oI