A NATIONAL PLAN FOE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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FIGURE 17. Our forest land area would blanket the whole United States east of the Mississippi, with a 

 substantial block of 120 million acres left over. This gives an idea of what the use of this area would 

 mean in our national land economy. 



TOTAL FOREST AREA 



TOTAL AGRICULTURAL PROP LAND 



100 200 300 400 500 600 



MILLION ACRES 



FIGURE 18. Area involved in the forestry enterprise half again as large as that devoted to agricultural 



crops. 



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