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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



Usually not all of this lumber gets used sometimes very lit- 

 tle of it. For if the boards are destined to be resawn and made 



LEFT IN THE 

 WOODS IN FORM OF 

 STUMPS, TOPS AND 

 BRUSH 



SLABS &, 

 EDGINGS 

 FROM 

 THE SAW 



BECOMES 

 ROUGH LUMBER 



LOSS l>l 

 BASONING OF 

 THE BOARDS 



WHERE THE FOREST GOES 



Less than a third of the wood in a mature forest finally becomes lumber. The 

 chart tells what happens to it in the process of logging and manufacture. 



into furniture, about one-half of the wood they contain is 

 wasted in the processes of remanufacture. So, in many cases, 

 only a very small part of the wood that nature has been slowly 



