Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving is a joyful day, With relatives from far away- Plenty to eat, plenty to ?o; Many a folk is glad to see you. At the fires last dying ember Is the time that you remember; Tomorrow is another day And all the fun can net long • s liav --Ku'h Gates '52 Awake I Awake I Awake! awake! for the low, sweet chant Of the wild-bird's morning hymn Comes floating by on the fragrant air; Through the forest coal and dim. Then spread each wing And work and sing Through the long, bri ht sunny hours, O'er the pleasant earth We journey forth, For a day amotusg the flowers . — Arlene Wright '52 •Jo FORESTRY ESSAY WHY VERMONT NEEDS A FORESTRY PROGRAM Everyone in Vermont knows or should know that our state needs a Forestry Program. Our forest serves us in many ways. One of the ways is by the wood we use. We use wood to build homes, make tools, furniture, paper, railroad ties, and many other things. Turpentine and rosin are next to wood in import- ance. Forest trees give us our maple syrup and sugar. Forests also give valuable service by protecting the watersheds and the regulation of stream flow. They help prevent land and snow slides. If we don't take care of our forests right they will soon run out.

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8 Many people say, Why plant trees? The main reason is that planting trees psys. Forests are the source of lumber, pulpwood, and other necessities which through long years of use have become a necessary part of civilization» Around the process of making the products of the forest into everything from cradles to coffins is built an enormous buisness which gives employment to thousands of people, (There are about fifteen people in ny town that are employed in making paper from wood.) Then forests aid in the control of water. They help to hold river flow and to lessen flood dangers. They prevent soil erosion and the resulting loss of soil fertility and the filling in of reservoirs. Forests are the finest recreational centers. With the steady flow of population to cities, together with the ever quickening pace of modern life the need and value of recre- ation increases yearly. Forests are the natural homes of fish, game, and wild birds. Forests give us beauty, but without them Vermont would be a desert. Forests are wealth and every effort to add to them by planting new forests will have a big effect on our future health, wealth, and happiness. Fires destroy our forests and y v haves.nofr the forests to be destroyed. Fires burn material for homes, newspapers, and hundreds of other products that are used every year. We could replant every forest, tree by tree that was burned but we would be planting all the time. Besides what would happen to our immediate needs? It would be easier all around to prevent fires in the first place. And if every single person in this state would co-operate we could and would prevent these forests fires. Insects also do a lot of damage to trees. .Some insecta eat the tree buds and young shoots, others bore into the bark and'the inner trunk. Bark beetles kill hundreds of pine and spruce trees every year. Some destructive insects eat s ring around the trunk of a tree until the flow of sap is cut off and the tree dies. Among the worst enemies of the forests are the hairy worm-like caterpillars. Another highly destructive pest is the hemlock looper. Disease is another enemy of trees. White pine blister rust and chestnut blight are the most destructive. Many of Vermonts forests are privatly owned. We need a forestry program to show these owners why to replace these trees and how to do it. So let’s have a FORESTRY PROGRAM. • —Rita Magnant, ’55 In the 1950 forestry essay contest, Rita’s essay was assigned fifth place In the Franklin Countv Northwest District.