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Friday, September 17, 1920
PROTECTION OR DESTRUCTION?
Under the title "Forest Pro
tection or Devastation" there
has just been issued from the
office of the secretary of the
North Carolina Forestry Associa
tion a pamphlet containing some
of the addresses made at the an
nual meeting of the association,
held in June. These include
"Timber Depletion and its Rem
edy," byE. E. Carter, assistant
United States forester; "The
Recreational Development of the
National Forest of North Caro
lina," by Verne Rhoades, super
visor of Pisgah and Boone na
tional forests; an address made by
Frank S. Lambeth, of the South
ern Furniture Manufacturers as
sociation; "A Lesson from French
Forestry," Theodore S. Woolsey,
Jr., assistant district forester;
and "French Forestry Practice
for North Carolina," by Dr. Jo
seph Hyde Pratt. The volume
also contains the resolutions a
dopted which embody the pro
gram of the Forestry assocaition.
The association will continue
to urge on the people of the state
the enactment of legislation for
establishment of an adequate for
est fire protection force; also, it
now urgeson Congress the appro
priation of sufficient funds to
furnish reasonable co-operation
with the states for the same pur
pose. Congress is petitioned to re
new the $2,000,000 appropriation
for purchase of forest lands, and
to establish a forest experiment
station in the state. The gener
al assembly will be asked to pro
vide funds for the protection, ad
ministration and improvement of
Mt. Mitchell park.
The national forest service, Mr.
Carter stated, recommends fed
eral action jointly with state to
prevent the continuation of fire
losses, the proposal being that
the amount of federal funds ex
pended in any one state during
any year shall in no case exceed
the expenditures of the state
government for the same pur
poses, and further that the sec
retary of agriculture shall be au
thorized, in making such expend
iture, to require that reasonable
standards be made effective by
state legislation in preventing
the establishment of fire men
aces or the handling of forest
land in such a manner as to pre
vent future production on it, and
to withhold co-operation in
whole or in part from states
which do not comply with these
standards in their legislative and
administrative methods, North
Carolina, he pointed out, has
about 18 million acrtfs of forest.
On this the state spends less than
$4,000 per year for fire protec
tion and gets between $2,000 and
$3,000 assistance from the feder
al government Oregon is spend
ing $40,000 for the same purpose
and requires its forest land own
ere to protect their forest on an
acceptable standard, or pay the
state for doing so. It appears
that really adequate fire protec
tion costs on the average not less
than a cent and a half per acre.
The federal government has
purchased, 'under the Weeks law,
the entire appropriation of which
now has. been exhausted, 350,000
acres, or somewhat less than 2
percent of the forest area, and
the purchases made within the
decade, the federal expert de-
clsrea already to have justified
themselves. Even with a fire
IS
at times" we are getting real
timber growth.
Pennsylvania has more than a
million acres of state forest The
i purchase by states of ' forest
j area3 is increasing, but the really
! effective forestry policy must be
i directed mainly towards private
I 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
tion located in the west, which
will be all the while developing,
in a systematic way, information
about Krovyiiij; 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
ber bearing areas so vital for
economic production and soil pro
duction," Said he:
"The Appalachian mountains
are suited for forest production
and for a great national play
ground. If 70,000 people daily
visit the Wienerwold near Vien
na then 10 years from now there
will be a million or more in these
hills, seeking health and recre
ation. 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. It
is a civic duty to urge your rep
resentatives in Congress to se
cure large federal appropriations
for co-operative fire protection
and for the establishment ftf ex
periment 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
harvested a century later."
It would be well 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. It 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 buts highly
valuable recreation aspect.
The time may te unpropitious
for securing the renewal of the
national appropriation for pur
chase of forest lands, and for se
curing large-scale assistance to
the states in fire protection. But
the federal forest policy is so
soundly based that surely these
things will be done sooner or
later.
1 he 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
ly as possible. -GreensboroDaily
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