Deforestation.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 111, 14 May 1904, Page 2

Deforestation.

(Per Press Association) GISBOHNR, May 13. A member or the deputation which to-day waited on the Hons. Mcbowan and Carroll stated that in this district 40,000 acres of hush was burned last year. Tins year a similar area would to felled. Speaking recently on the importance of forestry, the President of the United States said " The forest problem is to »u w the most vital internal problem in live United States. Tlie more closely this statement is examined the more evident its truth becomes. In the arid regions of the west agriculture depends first pf nil ,ip (m the available water supply. ]„ suc h a riv Kion forest protection alone can maintain the stream How necessary for irrigation, and can prevent the great and 'destructive tloods so ruinous to communities further down thot same streams tlvut head in the arid regions. The relations between the forest and the whole mineral industry is an extremely intricate one; for, as every mini w-ho hus had experience in the west knows, mines cannot; be developed without timber—usuaflv without timber close to hand. In many 01 the regions throughout the arid country ore is more abundant than wood, and this means that if the ore is of a low grade, the transportation of timber from any district being out of the question, the use of the mine is limited by the amount of timber available. ' *!%« very existence of lumbering, of course—and lumbering is the fourth industry, of the United States—depends up,'„ the success of our work as a nation Putting practical forestry irw 0 ~f foctive operation."