INDUSTRIAL FORESTRY 



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compete with the forests we had inherited and which we were 

 throwing so lavishly on the nation's bargain counter. But 

 inevitably as the wild forests were cut in the East and South, 

 transportation costs began mounting and today with our last 

 big body of timber in the Northwest and our great centers of 



OWNERSHIP OF FOREST LANDS 



20% PUBLIC 



60% PRIVATE 



SUPPLIES 97% 



OF ALL FOREST 



PRODUCTS 



REPRESENTS AN 

 INVESTMENT 

 OF ^^ 



'SUPPORTS 1,OOO.OOO PEOPLE 



FOREST USE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 



One fifth of our forests are publicly owned property of state or federal gov- 

 ernment. 



The other four-fifths is under private ownership and from this come practically 

 all the products of the forest. Cutting is going on much more rapidly on these private 

 forests and many of them are reaching the end. Government foresters are cutting 

 more conservatively with a view to making the public forests produce increasingly 

 valuable products for all time. 



consumption in the East, it costs between fifteen to twenty 

 dollars a thousand board feet for transportation alone. Nat- 

 urally, this must be borne by the user of lumber and naturally, 

 too, it is making the few forests accessible to markets take on 

 a real value. These rising costs have made it possible under 

 favorable conditions to plant a forest and to bring it to maturity 

 profitably. This is the real reason why industry is today be- 



