anaheim-gazette 1907-10-10

USE OF NATIONAL FORESTS TO PROTECT AND GROW WOOD FOR USE. The national forests occupy high mountain lands, rough and rocky, and which will always be of value chiefly for the production of timber and wood. The first thing that is made sure is that the timber is not burnt up; the next, that it is used, though not used up. Before there were any national forests enormous quantities of the people's timber on the public domain every year went up in smoke. Forests which covered districts as large as the State of Rhode Island were completely wiped out in the course of a few days. It meant losses to the people of millions and millions of dollars. Fire destroys quickly; trees grow slowly. It often takes a hundred years to make good the damage done by a single day's fire. In national forests there is a force of men on the ground whose business it is to look out for fire. They have been remarkably successful in keeping it down. Since the fire patrol was started less than one-third of 1 per cent of the total area of the forests has been burned over, and the money spent has been insignificant. This is a wonderful improvement over the old conditions on the open public domain, where fires were incessant and enormously destructive. Hundreds of millions of feet are sold from the national forests each year. That is why the forest is protected. The timber is for use. The great expense, it often makes their operations so costly as to be unpracticable. If the local supply is built up, the mines suffer. In mining tricts one of the chief objects of national forests is to protect them and keep it on hand ready use in the mines at all times. TO KEEP THE WATER FLOW STEADY It should be clearly understood that in regions of heavy rainfall for example, on the Pacific slope Washington, Oregon, northern fornia, and Alaska—national forests are not made for the purpose of alating the water flow for irrigation. In these localities there plenty of water to spare. The forests here are created and maintained to protect the timber and keep the people's hands for their present and future use and to vent the water from running off denly in destructive floods. In other parts of the West, ever, in all the great arid regions the Rockies and the eastern P slopes, one of the most vital real for making and maintaining th national forests is to save every of water and to make it do the effective work. No one has yet proved that for increase the rainfall to any great tent. What they do, and this no of experience disputes, is to and conserve the rain and snow ter they have fallen. Water down a barren, hard surface w rush, all at once. It runs down spongy, soft surface much slowly, little by little. A very part of the rain and snow of th per cent of the total area of the forests has been burned over, and the money spent has been insignificant. This is a wonderful improvement over the old conditions on the open public domain, where fires were incessant and enormously destructive. Hundreds of millions of feet are sold from the national forests each year. That is why the forest is protected. The timber is for use. The cuttings do not damage the forest, because the lumbering operations are so carefully done that the stand is left in first-class condition for a third crop and any number of future crops. Fire is kept out of the cut-over lands to give the young growth a fair chance. By wise use the timber crop is made perpetual, and its quality is improved by encouraging a new and better growth of the most useful kinds of trees. The actual results on private lands where the owners do not care what happens after they have skinned them, are quite different. These lands are usually cut over with the sole object of getting everything possible out of them at one stroke. They are stripped of timber, while the slashings which are left on the ground make good fire traps. Very soon the whole area burns over and the ground becomes a nonproductive waste. A glance from a car window in Michigan, Wisconsin or Minnesota shows the now absolutely ruined lands which but a short time ago produced magnificent stands of white pine. Think of the great wealth which the people of these states might have made permanent, simply by using the forests wisely. Then, again, wood is so very essential in everyday life that it seems unwise to let it be monopolized by individuals or corporations. Actual results show that when public lands pass out of the government's hands they eventually, and often very quickly, fall into the hands of big concerns, which rarely show the increase the rainfall to any great extent. What they do, and this new of experience disputes, is to mend and conserve the rain and snow ter they have fallen. Water down a barren, hard surface will rush, all at once. It runs down spongy, soft surface much slowly, little by little. A very part of the rain and snow of their regions falls upon the great main ranges. If these were bare soil and vegetation, the waters will rush down to the valleys below floods. But the forest covers trees, brush, grass, weeds, and table litter—acts like a big spout. It soaks up the water, checks from rushing down all at once brings about an even flow down the whole season. In irrigation it is very important to have an even flow throughout growing season, especially to the end. That is where the tree usually comes. As a rule the rain has more water than he can use the beginning of the season and enough at the end. The flood ters in the spring can not be they run off and go to waste. Herder to save these flood waters government is now construct many great reservoirs and cove throughout the West, at enormous cost. These reservoirs store up flood waters and hold them for when most needed. That is precisely what the forests of the natures do, although, of course, different way. The forest cover is also very important in preventing erosion the washing down of silt. Slopes were bare and the soil protected, the waters would down with them great quantity soil, gradually filling up the noirs and canals and causing immense damage to the great information systems. The government gineers who are building theseervoirs and canals say that work will be unsuccessful unless Then, again, wood is so very essential in everyday life that it seems unwise to let it be monopolized by individuals or corporations. Actual results show that when public lands pass out of the government's hands they eventually, and often very quickly, fall into the hands of big concerns, which rarely show the slightest tendency to handle them for the greatest good of the people in the long run. On a national forest the present and future local demand is always considered first. The government tries to see that there shall always be enough timber and wood on hand for use of the home builder, the prospector, the miner, the small mill man, the stockman, and all kinds of local industries. If local needs promise to consume it all, nothing is allowed to be shipped out of the country. If it were in the hands of individual or corporate owners, it would very likely be shipped out, regardless of local needs. It would seek the best market. If it were sold locally, the users would have to pay whatever price the owner might demand, and this price might be very unfair. This is especially important to the mining industry. All mining operations require a great deal of timber. It must be accessible, of suitable quality, fairly cheap, and always on hand. When timber for mines has to be shipped in from a distance at FORESTRY NOTES. Four thousand acres of cut-over lands on the Brule river in Northern Wisconsin have been given to the State by the Weyerhaeuser lumber interests. It will be used by the State Forestry Commission for practical forestry purposes. At a meeting of the Wind River Live Stock Association, held recently at Lander, Wyo., resolutions were adopted endorsing the Government's forest policy and recommending that local men be entrusted with the administration of affairs. "Railway ties are vaccinated in the tropics," said an engineer. "Vaccination prolongs their life three or four times over. You see the soft wood of these ties, unprotected, falls a quick prey to the innumerable fierce hosts of ants and worms and other tropical insects. They go for an unvaccinated sleeper as a tramp goes for a ple, and in a few weeks it is reduced to dust. But we vaccinate them. We inject into them creosote, or sulphate of copper, or some other 'antiseptic.' 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