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should be guarded by organized agencies. This 

 protection should include cut-over and unim- 

 proved land as well as timber tracts. Such a 

 plan would require that the State and Federal 

 governments bear about one-half the expenses 

 while the private forest owners should stand the 

 balance. There would be special rules regulating 

 the disposal of slashings, methods of cutting tim- 

 ber, and of extracting forest products such as 

 pulpwood or naval stores. 



If our forests are to be saved for the future 

 we must begin conservation at once. To a small 

 degree, luck plays a part in maintaining the size 

 of the forest. Some woodlands in the South 

 Atlantic States are now producing their third cut 

 of saw logs. Despite forest fires and other de- 

 structive agencies, these forests have continued 

 to produce. Some of the northern timberlands 

 have grown crops of saw timber and wood pulp 

 for from one hundred fifty to two hundred fifty 

 years. Expert foresters report that private 

 owners are each year increasing their plantings 

 on denuded woodlands. New England land- 

 owners are planting between 12,000,000 and 

 15,000,000 young forest trees a year. The Middle 

 Atlantic and Central States are doing about as 



