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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



It is noteworthy that 31 million acres, or more than half of the 

 industrially owned area of poor and nonrestocking land in the entire 

 country, is located in the South where also occur (see section, "Present 

 and Potential Timber Resources " ) by all odds the largest proportionate 

 acreage annually burned over and the greatest lack of organized fire 

 protection. One of the most serious though less spectacular phases 

 of forest-fire damage lies in the destruction of the small trees on re- 



New England 



Middle Atlantic 



Lake_ __., 



CentraL 



South 



Pacific Coast 



N. Rocky Mt 



S. Rocky Mt 



Al I Regions 



50 75 100 



MILLION ACRES 



IE5 



New England 

 Middle Atlan 



Lake 



Central 



South 



Pacific Coas 

 N. Rocky Mt 

 S. Rocky Mt 



40 60 



PER CENT 



Fai r to Satisfactory 

 Restocking Areas 



80 



100 



Poor to Non- 

 restocking Areas 



FIGURE 7. Industrial forest area, by region and character of growth. 



stocking areas which, if burning be continued, soon relegates these 

 areas to the nonrestocking or denuded classification. 



At the same time, it is significant that 63 million acres of indus- 

 trially owned cut-over land is classed as satisfactorily or fairly restock- 

 ing. This is indicative of the ability of most forest lands to restock 

 naturally if given a fair chance, and it is undoubtedly in considerable 

 part at least the fruit of organized fire protection and of the interest 

 and efforts of individual owners in fire protection. With adequate 



