NOTE 
The Illinois State Natural History Survey has made, 
during the last five years, a forest survey of the state, 
employing for the purpose from one to five trained for- 
esters, and has thus obtained dependable information on 
the location and area of wooded tracts, the amounts, 
kinds, and values of their content, the kinds of trees 
present and their rates of growth, and the relation of 
wood supplies, local and imported, to the industries of the 
state. The published reports of this investigation are in 
themselves too voluminous, complex, and full of statistical 
detail for general use as an introduction to the subject, 
and the following brief circular has been prepared to 
bring some of the more important results of the survey to 
the attention of the people of the state and especially to 
its farmers, who own 93 per cent of the woodlands of 
Illinois and the greater part of the waste lands which 
might be profitably planted to forest trees as a crop. The 
problem of wood-lot management and utilization will be 
discussed at length in a practical treatise now in course of 
preparation, but in the meantime certain typical facts and 
general ideas concerning the past, present, and possible 
future of forestry in Illinois deserve to become more 
widely known. 
STEPHEN A. FORBES, 
CHIEF OF SURVEY.