NATIONAL AFFORESTATION 



INTRODUCTION 



NOT only as a matter of national safety, but 

 in order to provide timber for our every- 

 day requirements, it is imperative that the 

 Government should, without delay, not only 

 replant areas that have been denuded for 

 war purposes, but afiorest at least a million 

 acres of waste or otherwise unprofitable land. 

 Commercially, forestry is in this country an 

 almost unknown industry, its necessities and 

 possibilities being but little understood, and 

 that although we are the largest timber- 

 consuming country in the world larger, 

 indeed, than all the countries of Europe put 

 together. We have fully 15,000,000 acres of 

 mountain and heath land where timber could 

 be successfully and profitably cultivated, and 

 yet the sum total of our woodlands previous 



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