MODERN FORESTRY 



West, the individual whose idea of developing 

 the country is to cut every stick of timber off 

 of it, and then leave a barren desert for the 

 homemaker who comes after him. That man 

 is a curse, and not a blessing, to the country. 

 . . . When wood, dead or alive, is demanded 

 in so many ways, and when this demand will 

 undoubtedly increase, it is a fair question, then, 

 whether the vast demands of the future upon 

 our forests are likely to be met. You are 

 mighty poor Americans if your care for the 

 well-being of this country is limited to hoping 

 that that well-being will last out your own 

 generation. No man here or elsewhere is en- 

 titled to call himself a decent citizen if he does 

 not try to do his part toward seeing that our 

 national policies are shaped for the advantage 

 of our children and our children's children. Our 

 country, we have faith to believe, is only at the 

 beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of 

 the United States can be made ready to meet 

 the vast demands which this growth will inev- 

 itably bring, commercial disaster, that means 

 disaster to the whole country, is inevitable. 

 ... If the present rate of forest destruction 

 is allowed to continue, with nothing to offset 



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