Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Municipal Forests Being Established in Maryland [ARTICLE]

Municipal Forests Being Established in Maryland

In Maryland municipal forests are being established with professional aid ifrom the state. In other eastern states, towns and cities are acquiring small municipal forests to serve for watershed protection or for recreation. The times seems fast approaching, notes a writer, when cities and counties as well as states and the federal government will very generally establish public forests for the growing of timber and for providing employment and utilizing land unfit for agriculture. Forestry involves so long a time in maturing the crop that, while reasonably profitable, private funds or individuals are not often attracted. Forestry seems destined to remain largely a governmental institution, although under special conditions and in certain sections of the country private funds are being profitably employed in growing timber.