Excerpt from Report of the New Hampshire Forestry Commission: For the Year 1901-1902

In presenting the summary of its operations for the past two years, the Forestry Commission begs leave to call atten tion to the general increase of public interest in the question of forest preservation which has been so marked in the time covered by this report.

In the nation not only is a more enlightened policy being pursued by congress and the administrative departments with reference to the care and maintenance of the national forest preserves, the extension of their area and the preserva tion of their forest cover, but, at its last session, congress took the first steps toward the establishment of a national park to be created out of forest to which the government did not possess the title. This park, situated in the southern chain of the Appalachian mountains, is designed to protect the head waters of the navigable and commercial streams of several states, thus bringing it clearly within the purview of national legislation; and at the same time aims to preserve to the agriculture of those states the beneficial conditions which nothing but forest preservation can perpetuate.

The annual message of President Roosevelt departed in many respects from the stereotyped formulae used by his predecessors in dealing with matters before the various depart ments, and in none was it more vigorous and outspoken than in its references to the kindred topics of forest preservation and irrigation. To this stout stand taken by the president may be attributed much of the general public interest which now prevails with reference to forestry. For in his exalted position he was able to attract and to centre the attention of the people whom lesser advocates would be unable to reach.

In our own state Governor Jordan, devoting, as he did, by far the larger portion of his inaugural address to a considera tion of some of the pressing needs of forest preservation in the White Mountain region, served to stimulate public interest in the problem in our own state.

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