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the rise to prominence of the yellow pine of the Southern States, 

 which today claim the eastern markets. There remain 114,000,000 

 acres of virgin pine and there is second growth on 119,000,000 acres 

 that have been cut. 



The lumber industry of the Southern States has before it the 

 results of the rapid cutting of the Northeastern and Lake States. 

 There is, therefore, a more pronounced tendency to prepare for the 

 future, to assure that through the judicious use of the present standing 

 timber and of the land upon which it stands, and keeping out of fires, 

 or by artificial reforestation, the pineries of the South will be renewed. 

 Forest fire protection is essential and tax revision ranks with it. Large 

 southern companies are now practising reforestation, and there is an 

 active interest on the part of the southern lumber industry in wood 

 utilization and other progressive issues. 



The Central States 



The Central States and the Southern Central States originally 

 contained 339,000,000 acres of forest, mostly hardwoods. Never 

 contributing more than 22 per cent, of the country's lumber produc- 

 tion, the output of this section has gradually fallen off to about 9 per 

 cent. Only about 18,000,000 to 20,000,000 acres of virgin forest 

 remain in a total forest area of 124,000,000 acres, and the bulk of the 

 land cleared has gone into cultivation because of its richness and 

 greater economic value for this use. The lumber industry of this 

 section is highly important for it is the principal source of hardwood. 

 The farm woodlot is the most important factor in the northern part 

 of the region. The southeastern mountainous part is chiefly a com- 

 mercial lumbering region and is suited to reforestation. The south- 

 western region is one of extensive commercial timber holdings, but is 

 destined to be largely agricultural when the virgin timber is removed. 

 Fire protection and the education of the farmer to the value of his 

 farm forest are the chief questions in these states. 



The Rocky 'Mountain and Pacific Coast States 



Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and California, with their 

 resources of white pine, western yellow pine, Douglas fir and red- 

 wood, are taking over leadership in the lumber production of the 



