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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



be made possible and necessary for the lumber industry to so 

 exploit its timber that the lands cut over be left in a condition 

 capable of continuous production. With the example of the 

 past behind us, we can see more clearly now and plan for the 

 lumber industry for the future. 



For the romantic, colorful epic of bygone days is doomed. 

 The end of our wild areas of original timber is in sight. To- 



ANNUALLY: 



WE GROW - - 



WE CONSUME - - 



WE COULD GROW UNDER 

 FORESTRY METHODS 



billions afauufeet of FOREST PRODUCTS 



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MATHEMATICS OF OUR PREDICAMENT 



It is not difficult to state America's forest problem. 



Briefly and simply we are using up our forests nearly five times as fast as nature 

 is replacing it. To continue is to make us a nation of timber paupers. 



Yet foresters tell us there is no need for suffering a timber famine since under 

 forestry methods we could grow even more than we use. 



morrow we enter upon an era when the wood we cut must 

 be man-grown and cared for, in order to replace the wood that 

 nature gave us and that we used so lavishly. We have to enter 

 upon an era of scientific cutting, of plantations, and of rigid 

 fire protection. An era of timber crops, perpetual mills, and 

 modern mill towns permanently established and forever free 

 from the cloud of migration or abandonment. 



But before we can bring this timber of the new age to 

 maturity, we shall have exhausted our old timber. Those will 



