P nosel of a,,RMm District and Use 
Th# area as a whole is more valuable as A one ooutry than as 
a forest. Meet of the area is peat as shows in Figorel. Where the 
peat has been burned it shoul be flooded * means of dams sat tikos 
The open water would be used by ducks ant muskrats. the lsa   bori  g 
the open water would grow up to marsh grass ad *at-tals which wuld 
result in a bie increase in prairie chickens. The saind should be partly

pleated to evorgroes, but oak woods and blueberrr lad should be 
reserved for Soe feeo, Cranberry opanies could be ialudte in the 
are  without byting their lad as 99 per oet of their land is not used 
excpt as a somroe of water,. 
Reforestatton amo. would never "pay the money tavested and there 
would be no Immedisto returns. As a ge    district the area would rem 
the people of the State In the form of hunting ead trappiu  and. row 
forestation could be eared mut at the same tine heneyhe seoh plant- 
Ing would Improve g- oontittions. The ridges and islads should be 
allow  to grow up to oak and the aks should be thinoed out to Ia- 
prove the aoorn crop mAt the blueberrr crop. In large peat narshos 
small Islands could be thrown up b mas of a dredge and a birch pleated 
on ejoh. This muU result is a big increase in growse and also in 
ducks If the mrsh were flooded.