Identifier: forestrycommunit638dana (find matches)
Title: Forestry and community development
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dana, Samuel Trask, 1883-
Subjects: Forests and forestry Forest protection
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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com-munity also will make profitable the cultivation of whatever farmingland there is in the region and so help to support a permanent agri-cultural population. Forestry thus will tend to check the present alarming drift fromthe country to the city, and will contribute materially toward build-ing up a larger rural population. By furnishing opportunities foremployment where none now exist, it will do its share to assist insolving the vexed problem of the unemployed. In Australia theundertaking of State forestry has in fact been strongly advocatedas a considerable remedy for rural depopulation, unemployment, andpauperism. A well-managed forest requires much labor in protect-ing it from fire and other injuries, in nursery and planting work, inmaking thinnings, in constructing roads, trails, bridges, telephones,and other permanent improvements, and in cutting the timber andother products and getting them to the market, to say nothing of the Bui. 638, U. S. Dept of Agriculture. Plate VII.
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Fig. 1.—A Bit of Virgin Norway Pine Forest on the Shore of Trout Lake, Wis. Thousands of acres formerly covered with stands of this sort are now desolate as a result of destruc-tive lumbering and fires. WL- k m W/Kfi — *••* * --* t M, *K \ i 1 y% * * -. ^ */ • - • ■ ,:5; I - % - ■-» ■-- .; ■¥ • • .1 *Jal;i; ^^RMX.- D i ■■ .; , ;.- ■ 1 ,.-M^ .—; ■v;S;:- ■ ^sebsbbSS^ Fig. 2.—Plantation Made by the State of Wisconsin on Cut-Over Land onthe Outskirts of the Town of Star Lake. The building on the right is a State forest ranger station. Bui. 638, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate VIII.

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