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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform): Overlooking the headwaters of Queens Run before the timber was removed
Identifier: areasofdesolatio01roth (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rothrock, Joseph T. , 1839-1922
Subjects: Forests and forestry; Reforestation; Waste lands
Publisher: Philadelphia : Herbert Welsh
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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'A- 28 health and recreation has fui-nished a strong support to the forestry movement. Our forestry reserves contain within them the head- waters of many streams, fountains of pure water, from which several towns are drawing; their supply. The net revenue from the* forest reserves is to ^^o mainly toward forming a State school fund, and it promises, in the not distant future, to b(^ an im()ortant annual contribution. Tor every acre of forest reserve land in any count3% «^ fixed sum of four cents an acre goes toward the roads or schools of the county. The reserves give employment to a considei'uble number of men as rangers or as laborers. Recent legislative enactments have created a new class of lands known as Auxiliary Fon^st K(\serves, ♦ 7 into which the owner may ))lace such lands as have suitable growing timber and have the tax reduced to a minimum, so long as the trees remain in healthy condi- tion. When the timber is cut, the owner pays enough to compensate for the reduced tax rate wliih^ tlu^ timber was growing. It is worthy of note that though IVnn- sylvania was not the first State to pass these laws, the idea originated there and the first active measures to secure such legislation began there. 'I'he^e laws re- move a tax burden which oft(Mi was j)ractical con- fiscation. They place the ))renuuni on growing timber and tlie penalty on cutting it! \\'lien ()urchase of land for the State began, it was impossible to secure trained men to can^ for it. There was, at that tini(\ nothing left for us to do but to train our own men. Out of necessity thcM'c^ grew u() out of most humble beginnings what has (((U'elojXHl into the State Forest Academy at Mont Alto. Tlie State
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