A NATIONAL PLAN FOE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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It is shown further by the fact that nearly all of the 191 million acres 

 of forest land needing but not given protection is in private ownership 



LAND CUT OVER ANNUALLY 



WITHOUT REGARD FOR FUTURE 



,PRIVATE LAND CUT OVER WITH 



REGARD FOR FUTURE YIELDS 



(365,000 ACRES) 



PUBLIC LAND C^JT OVER WITH 

 CARE FOR FUTURE YIELDS 



(135,000 ACRES) 



FIGURE 5. The annual cut, public and private. The large area of private land cut over each year with- 

 out conscious efiort to promote forest growth accounts in part for the 808,000 acres of priyate land devas- 

 tated annually and the much larger area deteriorated. Practically all public land is cut with the 

 perpetuation of the forest in view. 



PUBLIC FOREST LAND 



PRIVATE FOREST LAND 



25 



50 

 PER CENT 



75 



100 



Areas Protected 



Areas not Protected 



FIGURE 6. Absence of protection on nearly half of the private lands needing it is one of the main factors 

 in the excessive contribution of private ownership to forest devastation and deterioration. 



(fig. 6) and that at least 41 million acres, or about 98 percent of the 

 area burned annually during the last few years, is privately owned 

 (fig. 7). 



