Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1915 — Respect for Trees. [ARTICLE]

Respect for Trees.

“It is said that the German invaders of Belgium whatever else they may have destroyed, have been careful not to injure park trees. The cavalrymen, so a report goes, are forbidden to tie their horses to trees for fear that the animals will gnaw the bark. Germany was the first nation to apply forestry on a large scale, some of the crown forests having been under scientific management for over a hundred years.