FOREST SERVICE. 



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Number of timber sales, classified according to amount of sale, calendar year 



ended December SI, 1922. 



REFORESTATION. 



The following tabulation shows the national forest area planted 

 or sowed to commercial timber during the calendar year 1922, by 

 States : 



Planting and sowing on national forests, by States, calendar year ended Decem- 

 ber 31, 1922. 



At the present rate of progress in planting it will take from 150 

 to 200 years to reforest the denuded areas in the national forests that 

 can be restored to productivity in no other way. That our present 



