Scouting, Volume 31, Number 2, February 1943 Page: 2
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Soil Conservation Service
LIVING TRIBUTES
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IE now have on hand more than one million
trees which we shall be happy to donate to
planting projects operated by Boy Scouts."
"This division (of forestry) would be glad to
donate up to one thousand trees for each camp."
"This forestry division would be interested in
supplying seedlings for reforestation demonstrations
by Scouts."
These are statements of but three of the forty-eight
State Departments of Forestry, nearly all of which
offer to supply trees free of charge for the Boy Scouts
of America in their tremendous reforestation effort
for 1943.
The tree-planting program, proposed by Wheeler
McMillen, Chairman of the Rural Scouting Commit-
tee and editor of Farm Journal, will be keynoted
by particular observance of Arbor Day throughout
the United States, and tuned to the slogan "A tree
for every member of the armed forces."
Tree planting is a sound conservation activity, re-
sulting in the production of lumber, firewood, paper
pulp, and innumerable laboratory products; trees
provide soil protection, watershed control, food and
cover for wild animals and birds, plus scenic and
recreational values.
Today there is urgent need for Scout help in re-
forestation, owing to labor shortages. One State For-
estry Department says, "Not only will they (Scouts)
be putting a natural resource of prime importance
on idle land, but they will be helping to avoid a
waste of millions of trees . . . intended for reforesta-
tion through now discontinued CCC, WPA, etc." An-
other state fears it will be able to use only one third
of its annual production of 15,000,000 seedlings.
The waste today of millions of tiny seedlings in
nurseries all over the country represents a loss of
billions of board feet of lumber — to say nothing of
other products — to the United States of twenty to
fifty years hence.
Now is the time for Scoutmasters to plan their
Troop programs of tree planting.
It would be well for every Troop to arrange now
— just as did Troops of the Geneva, N. Y., Council —
to plant a tree on Arbor Day for every Scout or Scouter
in the services, and to go on from there to plant at
least one for every man of the community now at war.
Scoutmasters may be able to get trees at small cost.
Inquire at your Local Council.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 31, Number 2, February 1943, periodical, February 1943; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313090/m1/4/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.