The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-14
THE NEW AND THE OLD.

Our conservation friends work off lot of | ecessary nonsense when they try to show uch the country lost by the lateness of tn lvent on earth. For instance, the following, ge ally speaking, interesting and informing arti om clip sheet of the Department of Agricultur
 A new pioneering spirit is developing In the Lake States region bent not upon open ing up" new country and exploiting" re- sources regardless of consequences, but upon creating new resources and carefully hus- banding them for permanent use says Dr. Raphael Zon Director of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station. maintained by the Forest Service, United States Depart ment of Agriculture.
 This new pioneering spirit in giving pro- lection to the cut-over lands, is encouraging planting and denuded areas and is creat- ing forestry values for the future. As a result, Dr. Zon declares, there is developing a new forest which in time will again produce real revenues from the idle lands. The area now in State, municipal and county parks, resorts, clubs, shooting grounds, hunting and fishing preserves, and in State and private game refuges is close to 5R million acres Already there has been put back on the tax rolls thousands of acres that until recently were bankrupt and paid no
  for protecting these areas and of creating wealth upon them by reforestation will gather momentum.
 The new growth on these cut-over lands will never be like the virgin forest, Dr. zon says. "At first it will be forest of aspen or jack pine, suitable chiefly for pulp and wood, fence posts railroad ties and box lum- Der; but as time goes on, and the forest now being planted approaches maturity, in- dustries using it's products will develop throughout the forest region just as in- dustries grew out of the old lumber industry. These industries, however will be built to stay. because, taught by the bitter experience of the past the new forest will not be de- stroyed as the old was, but will be han ded on a permanent basis"
 Dr. zon believes the people are awaken ing to the fact that much of the land occu- pied by the old forests is not suitable to agriculture and that great areas will come back naturally into second growth, which will furnish an intermediate revenue until the real forest develops. There has also come with the automobile he says the development of a new appreciation of the forest for recreational purposes, and this has led to better understanding of the need for fire protection, for forest planting, and for the establishment of county State, and National forests
 Why does Dr. zon say the new industries u Il be based on the new forests will be built ay' because people have been taught by bit perience of the past" not to destroy forests? The truth is that the new forests will come ay because in the evolution of industry we hs ached a time when economy demands that nserve them. Why do the college-made exp take it for granted that everythi ne before their advent was dictated throu norance or criminal disregard for right pri oles?
 When the forests of the United States w, nuded by reckless logging the great demand e evolution of the country was cheap luml r the farms and towns being built on the We n frontiers. Inexpensive logging operations WI ajor considerations. The people had no nor protect forests when standing timber was wol ly few cents per 1000 board feet
 But the situation is changed. People can n ford to grow forests, and they are doing it. another case of evolution. If people had set the beginning by expending more money for t of timber than it worth it wol we slowed down development to such an exte at the demands that make timber planting woi lile now might never have come.
 The conservation experts have not done cause the course of development has made lch for them to do.