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Show Trees in 1637. Perhaps the earliest protection to trees In the colonies was In Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, for In 1037 Watortown was moved mov-ed to pass a vote at town meeting "to mark the shade trees by tho roadside road-side with a 'W and fining any person per-son who shall foil ono of the trees thus marked eighteen shillings." says Mrs. Charles P. Mlllspaugh, In the Chau-tauquan Chau-tauquan for June, Exeter, N. H was a close second, when in 1G40, regulations regula-tions were passed regarding the cutting cut-ting of some oak trees. In 1703 the Massachusetts Agricultural Society offered prizes to tho person who should cut the trees from the most land in three years; however, so alarming a decreaso in forest area was shown by reports received at the time that tho policy was speedily reversed, re-versed, and prizes were offered for tho planting of trees and tho management man-agement of woodlots. . o |