x A FOREWORD 



have cut lavishly the timber heritage we found here, but we 

 have given little thought to a new crop. Yet, just as man has 

 emerged from an era when wild game and wild fruit were 

 sufficient sources of his daily food, so is he emerging from an 

 era when he can depend on the wild forests for his lumber, 

 his paper, his turpentine, and his fuel. 



Tomorrow he enters an age of man-made forests and the 

 tale of how this came to be and how he is responding to these 

 new conditions is one of the most colorful pages of man's de- 

 velopment. 



All this, together with a glimpse of what the future holds in 

 our eternal partnership of man and trees, go to make up this 

 story of the forests. 



CHARLES LATHROP PACK 

 TOM GILL 



