CHAPTER XV 



WHY THE LUMBERMAN SHOULD PRACTICE 

 FORESTRY 



The lumber industry of this country can aid 

 reforestation by practicing better methods. It 

 can harvest its annual crop of timber without 

 injuring the future production of the forests. 

 It can limit forest fires by leaving the woods in a 

 safe condition after it has removed the timber. 

 Some private timber owners who make a living 

 out of cutting lumber, have even reached the 

 stage where they are planting trees. They are 

 coming to appreciate the need for replacing trees 

 that they cut down, in order that new growth may 

 develop to furnish future timber crops. 



The trouble in this country has been that the 

 lumbermen have harvested the crop of the forests 

 in the shortest possible time instead of spreading 

 out the work over a long period. Most of our 

 privately owned forests have been temporarily 

 ruined by practices of this sort. The aim of the 

 ordinary lumberman is to fell the trees and 

 reduce them to lumber with the least labor pos- 



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