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of hemlock and spruce and balsam on the (Jlympic Penhisula and 

 in the Snoqualmie National Forest. The entire forestry industry of 

 the United States is mo\'ing westward, and v/ith it is coming the 

 paper industry. 



Alaska contains 100.000,000 cords of pulpwood. She has the re- 

 sources to produce 1,500,000 tons of paper yearly. That is nearly a 

 third of the paper used in the United States, an amount nearly equal 

 to what we are now compelled to import from Canada. With reasonable 

 care, under the methods followed by the Forest Service, this output 

 can be kept up from the National Forests of Alaska perpetually. There 

 is a real solution of the paper shortage. 



A few years ago we heard much about the inferior character of the 

 forests in Alaska. As a matter of fact, aside from enormous quantities 

 of good pulpwood and serviceable construction timber, the territory 

 probably contains the largest quantity of clear, high-grade spruce to 

 be found in the United States. 



During the war this spruce passed every test for airplane construc- 

 tion, and it is now being shipped to the eastern States in increasing 

 quantities for car and factory stock and high-grade finish. One of 

 the things we shall accomplish by bringing the paper industry into 

 Alaska will be to open up her thousands of miles of coastal forests 

 and make available a much larger supply of special products like 

 cedar, clear spruce and long piling. 



FoRKSTRY Education 



The British Empire Forestry Conference, which met in London 

 during July adopted the following resolutions on forestry education, 

 which the delegates are to bring to the notice of their respective 

 governments : 



It should be a primary duty of forest authorities throughout the 

 empire to establish systematic schemes of forest education. It has 

 been found, for climatic and other reasons, that it would not be ])ossible 

 for each part of the empire to establish a complete scheme of forestry 

 education of its own, and therefore it is essential that those j^arts of 

 the empire which are willing and able to establish complete systems 

 should, as far as possible, frame such schemes with a view to combining 

 for meeting the needs of those jiarts which can only themselves make 

 a partial jiroxision for their recjuiremcnts. Part of this subject has 

 been dealt with by a committee, whose report, which refers mainly to 



