03 n -JOURXAI^ OF vORESTRY 



II 



THE PROPOSED PLAN 



(A). A forest policy for the United States should be based upon 

 the following fundamental principles: 



1. Prosperity in peace and safety in war require a generous 

 and unfailing supply of forest products. 



2. The NATIONAL TIMBER SUPPLY MUST BE MADE SECURE— 



(a) By forbidding the devastation of private forest lands and 

 by promoting the conditions necessary to keep these lands 

 permanently productive ; and 



(b) By the production of forest crops on public forests owned 

 and operated by communities, States, and the Nation. 



3. The TRANSFORMATION OF PRODUCTIVE FORESTS INTO IDLE WASTES 

 IMPOVERISHES THE NaTION, DAMAGES THE INDIVIDUAL, IS WHOLLY 

 NEEDLESS, AND MUST BE STOPPED. 



The public must safeguard its own interests and perpetuate the 

 forest industries by preventing such devastation and by the 

 acquisition and intelligent handling of forest lands for public 

 purposes. 



Although the fact and the effect of converting forests into wastes 

 have been set and kept before the lumbermen for more than 

 a generation, their practice of forest devastation has remained 

 and is today unchanged. The time has come when the public 

 must act in its own defense. It appears to be true that the 

 support of the lumber industry as now organized and inspired 

 can not be expected for any effective plan aimed at putting 

 an end to the making of wastes out of productive privately 

 owned forest lands. 



4. Unless and until lands can be more profitably employed 

 for other purposes they should be used to produce forest crops 



IN ORDER — 



(a) That forest products may be produced near to centers of 

 consumption, thus reducing the length of haul, minimizing 

 freight expense, and setting free the labor, equipment, sup- 

 plies, and power otherwise expended in moving forest prod- 

 ucts great distances. This will reduce the strain on our system 

 of transportation and wisely and materially affect, maintain, 

 and regulate interstate commerce. 



