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Title: Areas of desolation in Pennsylvania (microform): Overlooking the headwaters of Queens Run before the timber was removed
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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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28 health and recreation has furnished a strong support to the forestry movement. Our forestry reserves contain within tliem the head- waters of many streams, fountains of pure water, from which several towns are drawing their sui)ply. The net revenue from the forest reserves is to go mainly toward forming a State school fund, and it promises, in the not distant future, to be an important annual contribution. For every acre of forest reserve land in any county, a fixed sum of four cents an acre goes toward the roads or schools of the county. The reserves give employment to a considerable number of men as rangers or as laborers. Recent legislative enactments have created a new class ot lands known as Auxiliary I'orest ileserves, into which the owner may place 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 rcHluced tax rate while the timber was growing. It is worthy of note that though Penn- sylvania was not the first State to pass these laws, the id(^a originated there and the first active measures to secure such legislation began there. These laws re- move a tax burden which often was practical con- fiscation. They place the premium on growing timber and the penalty on cutting it! WTien purchase of land for the State began, it was impossible to secure trained men to care for it. There was, at that time, nothing left for us to do but to train our own men. Out of necessity there grew up out of most humble beginnings what has developed into the State Forest Academy at Mont Alto. The State
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