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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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iesand lay new track for one year, means thestripping of one half million acres of Amer-ican forest. Bridge timbers, telegraphpoles, etc., swell this demand to a millionacres of forest, cut down each year tomaintain American railroads. And rail-road ties are a small item in the total con-sumption of lumber. One of the most hopeful signs of thetimes is the changing attitude of the lum-bermen toward the science of forestry asfostered by the Federal Government. Theyare beginning to see that their industry isdoomed to an early extinction unless thewastage is checked and the forest is re-newed for future generations. And morethan this, unless the forests are preserved,vast tracts of fertile and prosperous Amer-ica will become desert in the next century.This is a lesson taught by such countriesas Tunis, now a part of the North Africandesert, which in old times was a smilingand populous garden. An Arab chroniclerrelates that in those days one could walkfrom Tunis to Tripoli in the shade. The
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Wheie the timber is shot down the mountain. 71° The Outing Magazine Arab conquesl destroyed the forest, andthe desert swept over the face of the land. It is difficult to realize that all attemptsto educate the present-day American in thevalue of foresl preservation fly in the faceof the teachings of his immediate fore-fathers. In an address delivered at theAmerican Foresl Congress last year, thischange of national viewpoint was put in astriking manner. No reasonable man would be disposedto denounce the early settlers of the tim-bered portions of North America for cut-ting away the.forests. Cleared land wasnecessary for the growing of food prod-uct > which were needed to sustain life. Aman with a family by a courageous enter-prise, or by the force of circumstances,projected into the wilderness, would nothesitate to cut down and clear off the treegrowth as rapidly as his strength permitted.Self-preservation is the first law of nature,and the pioneers in our forest areas had toclear

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