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JULY, 1925
A Magazine of Infor-
Copyright, 1925, by Boy
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mation for Scout Leaders
Scouts of America
VOL. XIII. NO. 6
An armful of white pine seedlings (1,000 to be exact) and scouts of East Aurora, N. Y. (a village of 3,500 people), caught in the act of planting 60,000
of these and other seedlings in one day, upon the hillside farms about the village-—an annual Good Turn by about 100 scouts, under the super-
vision of the Chief Forester of New York State, followed by a Public mass meeting in the evening, devoted to tree conservation
Forest Good Turns by Scouts the Year Through
LITTLE FORESTS, planted by
scouts, are beginning to dot many
J a barren landscape in almost every
state. These little forests are
really mighty forces in stimulating public interest
in forestry. This work should be pursued with
vigor during the planting seasons of each year.
City watersheds may be reforested; plantings
made in denuded town forests and waste por-
tions of park lands.
When or where planting of trees is imprac-
ticable, brush-grown trails can be cleared in
areas near the home communities of the troops,
under supervision of local park and forest officials.
Contests in thinning woodlands will be of prac-
tical value, and can easily be arranged by draft-
ing a near-by forester to instruct the boys in
thinning. Usually in the vicinity of towns or
cities there are small or large tracts of wood-
land that can be made more useful, not only for
recreation, but in terms of increased growth, by
proper thinning of the trees. Often such tracts
are so grown up to brush that they are of no use
to anyone. By proper thinning they can be made
available to the scouts, and to the communities
for recreation. By managing such an area, and
showing its possibilities as a forest, local interest
may be aroused sufficiently to bring about the
acquiring of the area in question for a town
forest. The work of the boys will carry along
through a period of years, and the changing
aspects of the forest may be followed, until the
man has before him the results of the forestry
work which he did years ago.
By O. M. Butler, Executive Secretary,
The American Forestry Association
POSTERS urging the public to keep
the woods sanitary and to spare the
SAY IT WITH TREES!
Scouts are patriotic. Dec-
orating graves on Memo-
rial Day, traffic service
during Fourth of July pa-
rades, pledging allegiance
to the Flag are fine expres-
sions of patriotism. But
to express love of country
in an everlastingly prac-
tical way,
Say It With Trees!
EVERY DAY, 138 FOREST FIRES!
EVERY YEAR, MILLIONS OF ACRES
OF FORESTS BURNED UP! ESTI-
MATED NATIONAL LOSS IN DE-
STROYED TIMBER AND SECONDARY
EFFECTS ON LAND VALUES AND ON
INDUSTRIES AND EMPLOYMENT,
$500,000,000 ANNUALLY. NOT TO
MENTION LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE
AND LIVE STOCK. PREVENTABLE?
WHY NOT?
trees, wild flowers and decorative
greens, may be distributed. Collection of
egg masses and destruction of nests of forest
enemy-insects will aid in the control of these
destroyers of green cover. An element of com-
petition may be introduced here by offering prizes
for the greatest collection.
TROOP MEETINGS should feature for-
estry; forest officers, state forest officials,
and outdoor leaders should be prevailed
upon to give special talks impressing the objects
of forestry practice.
THE REAL OBJECTS of forestry exercises
or conservation field days, whether they be
planting of single trees, the reforestation of
hundreds of acres, or the demonstration of fire
prevention and control methods, are to stimulate
the men, women, and children of our country
to an appreciation of growing forests and the
possibilities qf keeping America tree-green,
through persistent individual and cooperative
effort. Through his enlightening contact with
the forest, the Boy Scout becomes imbued with
a forest sense, which too often his parents do not
possess, but which in his youthful enthusiasm
he carries to them. His knowledge and his work
are infectious.
REDUCING OUR FIRE COSTS and fire losses by the use of
signs posted along forest roads or trails or at spots where
campers halt—where such signs may have the undivided
attention of the passer-by, and speak their message—is a real con-
tribution to the cause of forest protection. And who can better
place these posters than the Boy Scout? In this way the scout may
educate others and inspire cheerful cooperation. Forest fires that
never happen are the only safe fires.
ONE OF THE GREATEST SERVICES be-
ing rendered by the Boy Scout organization
comes through its cardinal principle of
getting the boys out in the open, and of giving them the clean adven-
tures offered by the forest and the woodland. That, in itself, is a
contribution to the cause of forest conservation, which can not be
appraised. The forest takes on a new meaning to the scout, and
becomes essential not only to his boyhood, but to his manhood
and to his country. It becomes to him the Great Shop, where
materials for a better life and a better nation are made.
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