The Tri State Forestry Conference

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ISBN 13 : 9781332339440
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book The Tri-State Forestry Conference, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tri-State Forestry Conference, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana: Indianapolis, Indiana, Claypool Hotel, October, 22 and 23, 1919 The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m., with Hon. W. A. Guthrie presiding. Hon. W. A. Guthrie: Fellow citizens, we welcome you here today. It is quite fitting that the Tri-State Forestry Conference should be called here in the center of what has been the finest hardwood forest of the United States. We are now entering upon an era which will witness a great advance in the reforestation which should produce and conserve our timber. The shortage of timber is a source of concern to many wood working plants and to plan for the future will give forth much for you gentlemen to work out. Our States have produced some of the best and most valuable timber of the nation. We have had such an abundance of timber that we have overlooked the rapidity with which we have been using it, and now we are unable to supply the demand. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana are three of the seven states whose supplies feed the world. We are in the lead in live stock, agriculture and manufacturing. Many of our sister states are ahead of us in the reforestation and are appropriating more money for this work. Pennsylvania appropriates $315,000.00 each year and has a holding of over six or eight million dollars. New York $288,000.00, Michigan $115,000.00 and many of the states from $25,000.00 to $75,000.00. Indiana has only been appropriating $7,400.00 for all purposes. Many foreign countries control their forests by handling I scientifically and they are able to pay a revenue of three or more percent, at the same time keep their forest intact. Statistics show before the war that Belgium had a population of 652 to the square mile and yet had 18% in timber. Switzerland 235 population to the square mile with 23% in timber. France 190 to the square mile with 23% in timber. Germany 25%, Austria 35%, yet in Indiana with only 75 population we have less than 10% in timber. The future of the timber problems of the three states are similar and it is for this reason that the three states have met here for this conference. If the timber supply for the future is to be assured then the wood using industries of the states must understand better how to control the influences which are now at work destroying the supply. The public must take an immediate interest in the timber lands and see that legislation is enacted which will make for the use of permanent mill, forest development, place timber on the market only as needed, give adequate forest fire protection and assure renewal after logging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.