Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-09 | Page 4 | Tree Planting Essential

TREE PLANTING ESSENTIAL With great tires fires raging In the forests every year the American Tree association Is attempting attempting- to Impress on the American people the need of more tree planting In Ina i a a recent appe appeal 1 the association saId William Penn was as one of the first friends of ot preservation be be- because because because cause of his requirement that one aCTe acre of ot forest be left for tor every fi live ve cleared In Connecticut In Inthe Inthe lathe the early days there was an ordinance ordinance ordinance nance that timber Umber should not be betaken taken out of a township township on the ground that it would be to the public welfare The latest obtainable figures figure show that during 1924 forest fires swept over acres and caused an estimated damage of ThIs must be replaced In la full tuIl or orIn orin orIn In part Charles Lathrop Pack presIdent of the American Tree association says It It-Is It Is possible because we e e have acres of land In this country that should be put to work growIng trees Let us plant trees