It is safe to say that here in Massachusetts, it will require at least one man to every 100 acres to maintain and operate a mature Town Forest. If the 600,000 acres of idle land assessed at $5 or less per acre were distributed equally among the cities and towns of Massachusetts, each would have 1700 acres for a Town Forest which would mean an industry employing about twenty men regularly, which would be an industry worth while for any town. This is one way be which to meet the problem of the unemployed.
---H.A. Reynolds, Secretary Massachusetts Forestry Association, October 1915