VOLUME 25 AUGUST, 1919 NUMBER 308 



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WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT IT? 



THE origiriai ioiest area of tiie United 

 States was 850 million acres. 



nPHERE now remains, in virgin timber, 

 ■■• about 230 million acres, about one-fourth 

 the original area. 



OUR total preisent acreage of forest and 

 cut-over lands is about 500 million acres. 



ONE hundred million acres of this is waste 

 land whi(ih produces nothing, and 180 

 million acres more contain more or less 

 second growth timber. 



A LARGE percentage of this second 

 '^*' growth timber is of inferior quality. 



np HE new growth of timber is not more 

 ^ than one-third of the amount which is 

 being used or destroyed each year. 



