THE TASK AHEAD 



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As part of any adequate program we must learn the best 

 ways of growing timber and the best ways of using timber. 

 We must direct the light of scientific investigation into the 

 secrets of tree growth for even today, with over a half century 



ONLY i341,000 ACRES 



ACTUALLY ftEPLANTED 



TO DATE 



OUR MAN MADE DESERT 



Some of our forests have been cut and burned so severely that it will have to be 

 replanted before it can again produce valuable timber. Between eighty and one 

 hundred million acres arc estimated to be in this condition a vast area that would 

 cover several large states. 



In the meantime actual forest planting proceeds at a snail's pace. Only one and a 

 half million acres of forest have been replanted to date. 



Reforesting our man-made desert and preventing further destruction is the heart 

 of America's forest problem. 



of forest practice behind us, we know very little of even our 

 most important species. 



Already we have waited over long. We can not delay until 

 the forests are exhausted and remedy the situation over night, 



