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seriously depleted. They can be renewed and main 

 tained only by the co-operation of the forester and 

 the lumberman. The most striking and encouraging 

 fact in the forest situation is that lumbermen are 

 realizing that practical lumbering and practical for 

 estry are allies and not enemies, and that the future 

 of each depends upon the other. The resolutions 

 passed at the last great meeting of the representa 

 tive lumber interests held here in Washington are 

 strong proof of this fact and the most encouraging 

 feature of the present situation. As long as we 

 could not make the men concerned in the great lum 

 bering industry realize that the foresters were en 

 deavoring to work in their interests and not against 

 them, the headway that could be made was but small. 

 And we will be able to work effectively to bring about 

 immediate results of permanent importance largely 

 in proportion as we are able to convince the men 

 at the head of that great business of the practical 

 wisdom of what the foresters of the United States 

 are seeking to accomplish. In the last analysis, the 

 attitude of the lumbermen toward your work will 

 be the chief factor of the success or failure of that 

 work. In other words, gentlemen, I can not too 

 often say to you, as indeed it can not be too often 

 said to any body of men of high ideals and of scien 

 tific training who are endeavoring to accomplish 

 work of real worth for the country, you must keep 

 your ideals, and yet seek to realize them in prac 

 tical ways. 



The United States is exhausting its forest supplies 



