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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



road of forest destruction. The pity of it is that we in America 

 have had to learn by our own bitter experience, rather than 

 profit by the experience of others. For the lesson L plain and 



WHERE OUR ORIGINAL FORESTS WENT 



Of the more than eight hundred million forest acres that grew here originally 

 almost half has been cut to make farms. 



It is with the other portions the cut, the devastated and the uncut that our 

 forest policy must concern itself. Before it is too late we must put into effect a 

 national policy of conservative cutting for the forests that remain and of reforestation 

 for the lands that have been cut. 



