Woodland and Roadside Volume 5-7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... posts can profitably be left to attain their full development and thus become available for pencil wood. FREE USE IN NATIONAL FORESTS. During the past year the forest service has furnished to settlers and ranchers from the national forests $75,000 worth of timber, without charge. Timber can thus be obtained by legitimate applicants. This distribution, under what is known as the "free use" privilege, is so managed that the forests are improved by the removal of material. This is another illustration of the fact that the national forest system is not to take away from the people their rights and privileges, but to protect and perpetuate them. The aim in the administration of the forests is broadly to aid in the permanent development of the country, and to place on timber cutting only such restrictions as are necessary for maintaining a permanent timber supply and for conserving the water needed for irrigation, for cities, and for power. The free use privilege has been granted liberally to ranchers who are building up homes, and enough timber will be reserved to supply their wants, even if this considerably reduces the amount that can be sold. CONNECTICUT FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. The "Proceedings of the Connecticut Forestry Association" for 1907 is received. It includes papers presented at the annual meeting of the association in January. The meeting brought out discussions of two vital subjects: protection from fire, a number of town fire-wardens being present and speaking, and forest land taxation, this discussion centering about a brief paper by Mr. R. C. Hawley of the Yale Forest School, formerly assistant forester of Massachusetts, in regard to the ineffectual attempt to dispose of the taxation question in this state. The Connecticut For...