Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report on Kansas Forestry: For 1885 Nothing is gained by withholding the frank admission that deforestation is often both necessary and desirable. Bosky bowers and shaded dells, and nature's wooded aisles and fretted vaults, and bridle-paths, and all that go with these, are admirably adapted to the wants of the gentleman of reddish complexion, whose royal robes consist of one Mexican spur and a paper collar, and whose queen's court wardrobe comprises only a stripe of blue paint and a nose ring! But it goes without saying that civilized man lives in the sunlight, and cultivates the ground; and that the latter needs air and sunshine as well as shade. Our ancestors would have given us a poor start in life had they been content with even slight inroads upon nature. The wilderness without was the scene of as sharp a battle as was the wilderness of sin within; and woe to us had they failed to make ex tensive conquests in either direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.