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HARDWOOD RECORD 



FOREST CONSERVATION vs. COMMON SENSE 



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LUMBERMAN (talking to himself)— That tree will make five hundred feet of cull lumber, for which I can get 

 four dollars. It will cost me six dollars to fell and cross it, log it, saw it, pile and season it, and market and ship 

 it. Shall I be a forest conservationist and a lobster, or shall I let it stand and burn in due course, and cut some 

 other tree on which I can make two dollars? 



