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care during and following cutting it would seem that future forest 

 denudation could be held to very small proportions. 



The large areas of cut-over land that are burned also reflect in 

 part the usiiaUack of concern of private owners as to what happens 

 to the future timber crop on land from which they have removed the 

 present crop. ^ This lack of interest is also illustrated by the fact 

 that included in industrial land is the bulk of the 20 to 30 million 



All Regions-. 



10 



2O 30 40 



MILLION ACRES 



50 



60 



New England 



Middle Atlantic- . 



Lake 



Central 



South 



Pacific Coast 



N. Rocky Mt 



5. Rocky Mt.._ 



Saw-timber 

 Areas 



40 60 



PER CENT 



Fa i r to Satisfactory t 

 Restocking Areas I 



100 



Poor to Non- 

 restocking Areas 



FIGURE 8. Farm woodland (commercial) area by character of growth. 



acres of^ cut-over forest land which is already reverting to public 

 ownership (much more is in prospect), usually through tax delin- 

 quency and which, supplemented by abandoned farm land, largely 

 makes up the so-called "new public domain", which is treated at 

 length in the section, "Breakdown of Private Forest Land Ownership." 

 This, in several regions, is causing severe economic and social disturb- 

 ances. It constitutes a rapidly expanding and difficult problem in 

 land utilization and planning. 



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