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AA/ERICAN FORESTRY 



tip to its conditions, the fulfillment of 

 which is further safeguarded by the re- 

 quirement of a cash bond. 



In many instances the Bureau of 

 Forestry has assisted lumbermen by 

 preliminary field studies and by advice 

 as to the methods which should be 

 employed in field and milling operations, 

 and the development of the lumber 

 industry has been rapid, especially dur- 

 ing the last few years, the annual cut 

 being 77,585,180 board feet in 1911; 

 95,377,925 in 1912 and 112,360.000 in 

 1913. The officials of the Forest Service 

 say that ten times the latter amount 

 might be removed from the public 

 forests annually without diminishing 

 their productivity. 



The Director of Forestry is vested with 

 adequate authority to control all cutting 

 operations so as to prevent needless 

 destruction and to provide adequately 

 for the reproduction of the more im- 

 portant tree species, with the result 

 that in many instances lumbering opera- 



tions have resulted in actual improve- 

 ment of the forest areas affected. If 

 the present policy is steadily adhered to 

 the public forests of the Philippines can 

 be made a permanent source of great 

 wealth to the people and of revenue to 

 their government. 



From the outset preferential attention 

 has been given to protecting the inter- 

 ests of the individual. The old Spanish 

 charges on timber to be used for house 

 construction or other non-commercial 

 purposes have been entirely done away 

 with. Even in the areas covered by 

 ''exclusive" concessions, neighboring 

 residents are granted the right to obtain, 

 free of charge, fuel and timber for their 

 personal use, but many Filipinos have 

 bitterly resented the restriction of the 

 wanton destruction of valuable timber 

 by the making of needless caingins. 

 Only a very few of the most enlightened 

 give a thought to the future or see any 

 real need of conservation. They wish 

 to take from the public forest whatever 



One Method of H.\uling Logs, 

 while this is the w.w this work w.\s done many years ago the same method is in common use tod.w. 



