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494 wide variation in the extent of the increase in forest lands, but a very obvious increase none the less.

Public officials were also liberal with information. The secretary of the Forest Park Reservation Committee of New Jersey gives it as his opinion that

The acting state forester of Minnesota believes (January 3, 1913)

The Conservation Committee of the State of New York writes that

Austin F. Hawes, the state forester of Vermont, believes that

The state forester of Kentucky writes that

The State Board of Forestry of Wisconsin fully confirms the estimates made by private lumbermen from that section of the country. The state forester writes (March 4, 1913):