Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — Our Forests. [ARTICLE]

Our Forests.

The meeting of the American Forestry Obngress was held at St Paul The primary object of this association is the preservation of onr forests. Dr. Loring, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, is its President and 'delivered the opening addreaa Among other things he said that the consumption of pine lumber by firetand in the arts was veiw great, and suggested that the future supply might be obtained by allowing an exhausted region to recuperate while the lumberman resorts to uncut seotlona for tire purpose of his demands. New * Hampshire and Vermont are exhausted of their pine supply, and thelrlpruce will last but seven and four years respectively at the present rate of oonsumptlda In Maine the pine will last but four and spruoe fifteen years, while in South Carolina, at tl>e present rate of cutting, the pine forests will last fiftyjears; California. 150 years, Arkansas, <IOO years; Pennsylvania, 15 years; Georgia 80 years, Louisiana, 100 years: North Carolina, 50 years; Wisconsin, 20 years; Michigan, 10 years; Minnessoto, 10 years; Mississippi, 150 years; Alabama, 00 years; Florida, tO years; Texas, 250 years. Exhausted forests can be restored in time, and to this end every means should be applied both by people and Government, each within its own jurisdiction.