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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



growth and contain over twice as many conifers as the eastern 

 forests. 



A few, a very few, species grow in both regions, such as the 

 Canadian spruce and box elder. 



As a whole, the forests of the United States, both eastern and 

 western, are in poor condition. They have suffered so greatly 



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TIMBER REGIONS OF THE U. S. 



from lumbering and from forest fires that today they produce 

 a pitifully small fraction of their full capacity. About seventeen 

 per cent, only, remains uncut. Forty-three per cent has been 

 cleared for farm lands. Thirty per cent has been cut, but is 

 again restocking and ten per cent or more than eighty million 

 acres has been so cut and burned that only sparse inferior 

 growth is slowly reclaiming the land. 



