GIGANTIC TREE-PLANTING SCHEME.
There is a huge area half-way across the State of Michigan, nine million acres, called the “cut over lands," caused, it is related by the pioneer loggers leaving “slash" which, burning, killed the young growth over this vast region. Eater the pioneer farmers actually burned surrounding growths as a. protection against forest fires. “But his Nemesis came," relates a traveller recently, “in that the sandy soil rapidly exhausted itself. Then man. and: his kibe trekked, and over the fire-scarred laud, which could yield neither crops nor fodder, fell utter silence. Nature was dead. Somewhat more than twentyyearsl ago Michigan started scientific reafforestation as the only possible means of restoring these unproductive acres to usefulness. But it is easier to destroy than to recreate, and the present planting rate of 10,000 acres a year suggests a long job ahead for the co-operating forces of Federal and State Governments. The lesson that the State learned from her forefathers' mistakes is now blazoned on her every woodland road in the appeal “Keep Michigan Green."
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 April 1928, Page 16
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