Practicable forestry in Tasmania and elsewhere

The immense extent of forest land in Tasmania has struck every visitor to the island from the time of Abel Tasman to our own day. On the visitors who came to stay as settlers, this fact made an unfavourable impression, as its signification to them was the cost of clearing land for cultivation. And this impression has coloured and affected all that has been done in the way of dealing with forest land in the State.
Trees have been regarded almost exclusively as impediments to agriculture, and not as possessing any intrinsic value worth consideration.