Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-25 | Page 22 | Movement for the Preservation of American Forests; Vigorous Effort to Extend Our National Reserves

i Movement For tIle the Preservation of American Forests r fi Vigorous orous Effort to Extend Our National Reserves JI time timo has JIn come ac acv according cording to lo Iho tho experts rt l of fit th h depart department tt Ii I A lr x w meat ment when In ht order to tot fW t r f 1 xi i tho southern thorn W Appalachian nod ami White Mountain front tr tn destruction It will Itlo be h to 10 h a It system II of ot groat national forests tOIe In tho eastern pert of ot tho con cony continent continent Tim rho lust last l n Instructed alto tho secretary of oC o to look Into I t the tho mutter thoroughly hl Secretary Wilson has hI recently Bub suI s 3 milled to tn the Iho present coral res a do doa a tailed talle 1 report In which union ho min II advocates n the tho of ot ns aa much of ot Iho tiro mountain and southern Appalachian f wooded regions as Is It F seems that the tho cost of ot the land rill Tm ho compared compare with the them m benefit to lu be Horn front tho tun pur purchase chase With lIh tho thu White While mountain for tor the tho public Is la more or lemo familiar but the m southern Appalachian region reelon la ts almost almont an undiscovered country to tc 9 most Ami Icons The Tho Umber timber lands of ot tho the White moun mountain i tain region relon ore held nowadays by hy a afew 1 few tew large laigo companion nearly nearl all o or of which arc engaged encased extensively In tell fell felling tellIng t ing tug the spruce for quip pulp or m lumber t manufacture Far Kor thin reason renson the nov gov ov R eminent may mil not be he able uble to acquire large n caa of at virgin timber It will willbe willbe willbe be obliged to content Ike with small mall smaller mallor or er tracts surrounding palms of at special Interest In At the tho south the case C Is b quite differ different ant ent en I The Tho land IB Is still cheap and In order to the tho rivers rIvet much larger lamer el tracts will Dave to tolu be talon talton Im Int Immediately mediately by h the tho general government It t Is la tho the opinion of oC Secretary Wilson and n Iso of oC Gifford Clifford the tho na ml national Honal forester forestor that not loss Irsa than acres should be purchased by bythe bythe bythe the government In this southern Ap region rel lon They that this mould would cover tho the rater water ater hods of oC the Potomac James Jamell C Broad Saluda Si Sn a Coma Coosa Tennes Tennessee see ec New N Cumberland Kentucky und end rivers It Is believed d that thin land Imil may be obtained for tor an average of Qt 5 BO nn an acre nere and arid tin an appropriation of to be available it at at once Is la recommended mended Secretary WIlBon Is IJ also of ot the tho opinion that tho the acquisition of ot r about acres In the tho White moun mountain tain will bo be This should include as ns much as ns possible of or tho the Presidential Sandwich find mt Carle mountain lII ranges which lire are the Iho portions portion of ot tho the region National all onal forests says Mr tr I Wilson In his hll report to congress wilt will mean the development of or tho the southern sou thorn Ap Appalachian p While Willa mountain regions beyond any n point that would bo bl pot I tile blo without t them Much of at tho the Ap A p pi i reserves All of at these re reserves reserves serves are arc 1 west vest of oC the tho Mississippi river It Is a 11 fact tact that the tho best hest of oC the te coun tr R forests are In hand Mond Tho national forests now cover coer nearly n I acres and amid are confined to fifteen cn western stator states with tour four our re 10 reserves reserves serves In Alaska In mind and ono one In Porto Idea In each of ot tho states shies of or California Idaho and Montana more ore than OOOO Ing annually 00 board feM feet of or lumber p per r capita while the average averl e for f r Ku Eu Europe u ropo rope Ii I only sixty feet teet per capita u it ite Ii Is estimated t that the lumber out cut cu t e Into 1880 would maUo mako a 11 floor door ono one Inch molt thick over Vermont Massachusetts Con Can Connecticut Rhode Island and anti Delaware Delawarean an nn appalling area area According to lo an nn expert the tho present timber situation Is about as us follows tho flue total lumber product Tile Tho fh time of ot ar c of at the tho I Pacific slates sinteR N Is 1 e lust fast approaching Since the t he lust last Ia census cenius tho the product of ot the file Pacific Im c s tales states has I wa risen from Cram less ices than 10 per fler cent of at the lumber output of at the country to 20 0 per percent percent percent cent The shifting of ot the thief diet sources of at supply has hM of ot course been accompanied Punted by a change chanc In tho the kinds of bt The yellow nil ow pIne states stales of or the tho south are Alabama Arkansas Florida Geor Georgia Georgin gin gia Louisiana Mississippi Texas This The 1 present e n nIs t annual cut nut of ot a t yellow fellow ellow pine Is about feet teet or n 1 little moro morn than tho the total cut of all species s H It Is estimated by b the tho forest within ten or fifteen years there will 11 bo be boa a serious shot shortage Inge of yel yellow yellow el ellow low pine n as v ra raP raY R P Y r max St a to r r 1 1 Wal I r 1 1 f to b hS r r b t tr vc F 5 p t n r M I I t x LAKE SAPPHIRE IN THE PROPOSED SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN RESERVE forest has been so 10 damaged that yenta will viii bo ho required for Cor it H to come again to a n high state stale of or productiveness Until It does wo we may expect a shortage In hardwood timber The Tho longer the tho delay In putting this tads forest land under control the longer continued and moro more extreme will nil bo ho the short hort shortage shortage age ase Tim The Government Reserves At present only of at the wooded wo derl area tre of at the United States Is In acres of at forest tor forest s land are under the Jurisdiction of at tho the forest service Rapidly as ns the population of ot the tho United States Slates has hus Increased the tho lum turn lumber lumber ber consumption has Increased still stillmore moro more rapidly In round numbers and allowing for Incomplete reports tho the lumber cut In 1880 was feet reet In 1890 2 foot feet and andIn andIn In 1900 foot feet The In Increase Increase increase crease In population front from ISSO 1880 to 1900 was 52 per cent but In lumber cut 91 94 9 per cent The rhe United States Staten Is now us In ht the last lust t years the tho combined lumber output of at Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania was almost feet or 36 per cent of at the total production of ot the tho th United States Staten The Tho western and southern movement In timber cutting Is strikingly Illustrated by h the state statement statement statement ment that the northeastern states reached their relative maximum In 1890 and the lake states slates in III 1890 The southern states are near their maxi maximum maximum maximum mum today loday with about 35 per cent of oC lumber produced There was a time when white pine pi no alone alono constituted ono one halt half of at the total quantity In 1900 this species furnished only per pel cent and In hi 1905 only 15 IB per cent of at the tho lumber cut On An the tho other hand Doug Douglas Douglas Douglas las fir Is III credited with 5 6 per cent cont In 1900 mind 13 per cent In 1905 Tho The days of ot white pine are rapidly rapid passing pas Since lumbering began In ht the lake states some seventy years ears ago It Is estimated the tho cut of at white pine has not been less than thun feet teet The devastation of oC the tho hardwood forests has kept pace with whit the tho slaughter ter of oC tho the pine forests The Tho supply ot of Indiana and nn J Ohio the original center of ot hardwood production Is III practically exhausted led The Tho cut of at hard hart wood IH is IHnow isnow now widely distributed buted and Is heavy heay In every state where there thero are even evon small bodies of ot hard woods In 1899 Illinois Ohio and Indiana produced 25 per pel cent of tho the hard wood In 1906 they the pro produced produced produced only oily 14 per cent It 11 Is declared by the forest service officials that these three slates can enn never regain their lend lead or 0 oven maintain tho the standing they have States not thought ot or In tn i n former years for tor lair hard woods are arc now near turning out considerable quantities QU Maine with a II cut of oC feet feat In 1809 went to In III 1906 1900 New Now Hampshire lampshire turned turnell out In 1906 1000 ns as 8 against in 1899 1890 Even l ven Oregon Montana Montano und and other west western we t tera ern era states canto came Into Inlo the list with un unexpected un unexpected unexpected expected emanate In all nil of ot the tho states state wes west or of tho the Mississippi valley alley the sup supply supply supply ply Is Ii small and can never become much of oC a factor The largest estimate for tor standing hard hand woods Is III feet teet Enormous quantities lire are required each year ear for till railroad ties tieR telephone and other pol os piles and fuel tuel and a n Great amount Is wasted In lum lumb lumbering bering b and manufacture The forest exports say that it Is III not ei ex to put tho the hardwood cut at foot feet yearly y arly At this thie rate the tho present standing supply will be ex ox exhausted exhausted hausted In sixteen years Approaching Extinction Most Moat wonderful of ot all Is la th the fact that since tine the slaughter of or the American forests began no native species has disappeared entirely Tho The exports who havo hao lave been making tho Investigation ordered by hy the last congress report that black walnut Is s nearly exhausted The Tho extent to whIch this tills noble Ameri Amen American can wood has been sacrificed can hard hardly hardI ly 11 I be appreciated The Investigators found round many rail mil fences and In some places barns and stables built of or high grade walnut Cherry is another American hard wood that is nearly ex extinct ex extinct extinct No large tracts of or either wal walnut walnut walnut nut or cherry remain in the country countr The following tallow In extract from tram the re report report report port to congress sets forth the most logical reason for tor tho the further safe safeguardIng guardIng of or tho the American forests bs he Yore foro It shall forever bo be b too late National forests are Me mode made first of or orall all for tor the lasting benefit benent of at the real homo home builder They The make malle It U Impose Impossible ble hIe for tor the land to be he skinned They The benefit b nent the tho man with lIh a homo home and the tha thaman thoman theman man who seeks to build one ono by b Insuring insuring ing In protection and wise use of or tho the tim timber timber ber b r and grass and by conserving the water In considering what national forests are arc for and how they tile affect tho the resources ell ot of the tho mountains th tile this fact should never be lost loU sight of that they are for rol time tho home homo builder first tint and that their resources are aro protected and used med for tor his special welfare before beto everything else ELLIS STEPHENSON