. Annual report . << < O H<Hco H w Sw X w HcoW«O. o I—I HU & uw -J Pi< w D2; o H PS< Ph Hen<J W FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 167 These forests as a financial investment have been most could now be sold for several times what has been paid for them. Thepolicy to extend them is both wise and necessary. The Constitution prevents the cutting of trees on the Forest Preservewhich are mature, over mature or even dead. It absolutely prevents thepractice of forestry, because forestry is utilizing our wood crops to the bestadvantage. It prevents any improvemen
. Annual report . << < O H<Hco H w Sw X w HcoW«O. o I—I HU & uw -J Pi< w D2; o H PS< Ph Hen<J W FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 167 These forests as a financial investment have been most could now be sold for several times what has been paid for them. Thepolicy to extend them is both wise and necessary. The Constitution prevents the cutting of trees on the Forest Preservewhich are mature, over mature or even dead. It absolutely prevents thepractice of forestry, because forestry is utilizing our wood crops to the bestadvantage. It prevents any improvement being made in the forest itselfand causes the absolute loss to the State of millions of feet of wood materialannually, because the ripe crop cannot be cut or utilized and the decay is,on the average, as much as the growth. The State has purchased at a largeexpenditure these one and one-half million acres of forests primarily as amatter of forest preservation. But the policy now pursued in handlingthese lands is actually destroying the forests. This
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