FOREST LANDS BECOMINr. WASTES 3'> 



There is no data to enable us to predict towards what we are drift- 

 ing. The data from Europe is so conflicting and so many different 

 factors are involved that no safe conclusions can be drawn from 

 them. We are producing a type of degeneracy all our own, and what 

 this burden may amount to in the future, if we continue to produce 

 community after community of this kind, cannot be predicted. But 

 the degenerate community is not the only cost, in terms of humanity, 

 of the migratory character of our lumber industry. 



Because of this migratory character, the men have seldom been able 

 to establish homes. I believe that this fact has been a strong force 

 degenerating and driving from the industry its labor. The American 

 and Canadian woodsmen have already gone this trail, and the Russian 

 and Pole are following them. In the American Lumberman of June 7 

 you will find my ideas on this subject expressed more fully. 



Although not the only factor involved, it seems that the cost to 

 society of creating large areas of waste or partial waste forest soil is 

 human degeneracy. 



