Bulletin, Pennsylvania Department of Forestry

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Excerpt from Bulletin, Pennsylvania Department of Forestry: February May, 1922This stream here in Harrisburg used to be the greatest rafting stream that the world ever knew. The amount of lumber that would come down, the amount that has been ¿oated out of the Susquehanna would amaze us all if the real figures were presented. One of my predecessors, Governor Bigler, came down from Clearfield County, his home, to his duties at Harrisburg upon his own raft of logs, time and again, the easiest means of transportation over the hills and through the valleys of Pennsylvania I guess at that time. We are trying to make rural transportation easier. \ve are trying to make it possible for the people to get to these forests that we have. \ve have two hundred and sixty-five thousand acres of forest in one block up in the northern part of the state, and where within my recollection the bald hills were devastated by forest fires are now really creditable gro'ivths of new timber, which we are trying to protect. We are paying particular attention to this fire problem. In the past we have only played around the edges of that situation. The state would buy land and try to do something on it, and then either by care lessness or accident a forest-fire would come along and destroy not only all that had been done but render the ground fruitless for some time to come. We are going to battle with that problem in a better-organized way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.