Any public reservation of permanent character such as a Town Forest will increase the value of property in its vicinity. Especially is this so if the land is used for house-lots. This increase in value will bring more money into the local treasury through taxation. The soil on which a forest grows increase in value and if the land ever becomes necessary for farms or house-lots, the town will receive the unearned increment instead of some individual. This idle and cheap land here in Massachusetts will some day become valuable and the towns should acquire it now for the good of future generations.
---H.A. Reynolds, Secretary Massachusetts Forestry Association, October 1915