BETTER WOOD UTILIZATION STUDY 



IMPORTANT IN FOREST CONSERVATION 



San Francisco, Gal., April Forest conservation means the 

 striving for a better utilization of forest products and the 

 consequent checking of useless waste as much as it does the 

 protection of forests from fires and the reforestation of lands 

 which should grow timber, according to foresters and progressive 

 lumb e rmen of the new s ch o ol . 



Few people have a clear idea of the importance of the 

 study of proper wood utilization, 9<nd ono of the effects of the 

 establishment of the Forest Service District offices most bene- 

 ficial to the people of the West is the possibility of a close, 

 helpful relation with a branch of the Service whose workings 

 have heretofore been little understood in this region. This is 

 the Branch of Products. 



The work of this part of the Forest Service has to do 

 with the best and most economical utilization of the products of 

 the forest, not only lumber and its products but also the bark, 

 resin, sap, and even leaves of these trees of which these parts 

 are of value to man, 



It is not enough that care should be given to the grow- 

 ing of a new forest and to the careful and economical cutting cf 



