FOREST CONSERVATION.
Ik continuation of the subject matter of our leading article m Saturday's issue, we may briefly point out the value which other countries place on their forests as a source of revenue as well as for c.ioutic purposes. As forests are more import < ant to the State than to the individual, therefore, no man should be allowed to remove them at his will. Sweden long since enacted that for every tree cat down, two should be planted. Even Finland has an active school of fores tery, and Spam has already published on this subject 1,126 books and pamphlerts. Switzerland, repenting tho removal of her forest^ by which the country was left at the mercy of inundations and avalanches, has begun to replace the trees on the inountain Blopes, and with the happiest results. It is, however, m Germ my where forestry as a Bcience and art is carried to the greatest degree of perfection. Well appointed schools devoted especially to this science, dot the whole Empire, and those educated m them are as much theservantß of the State as are the officers of the army or navy. In comparison how criminal is the negligence displayed by our New Zealand Government m the matter of State forest conservation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 206, 6 August 1883, Page 2
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