Annual report of the Massachusetts State Forest Commission . BOSTON: WEIGHT & POTIEE FEINTING CO., STATE PEINTEES, 32 DEENE STEEET. 1915. Approved byThe State Board of Publication. REPORT OF THE STATE FOREST COMMISSION. The conservation of forests has not interested the iVmericanpeople until a comparatively recent period. The supply of lum-ber in America has seemed inexhaustible, and it was not untilthe realization of a possible shortage began to arouse the fearsof the more thoughtful that this was brought to anything likea practical consideration. In foreign countries the need ofscientificall
Annual report of the Massachusetts State Forest Commission . BOSTON: WEIGHT & POTIEE FEINTING CO., STATE PEINTEES, 32 DEENE STEEET. 1915. Approved byThe State Board of Publication. REPORT OF THE STATE FOREST COMMISSION. The conservation of forests has not interested the iVmericanpeople until a comparatively recent period. The supply of lum-ber in America has seemed inexhaustible, and it was not untilthe realization of a possible shortage began to arouse the fearsof the more thoughtful that this was brought to anything likea practical consideration. In foreign countries the need ofscientifically preserving forests in order that a continuous sup-ply of timber should be secured as the trees were cut and usedhas been felt and studied, so that as a necessary consequencethe wooded areas used for such purposes should supply newlumber as the well-grown is consumed. This has in a largemeasure been successfully adjusted in Switzerland, Germanyand France, and a practical succession of crops has been at-tained without extending the forested areas. In oannualreportofma1419mass
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