Poor cutting increases the waste of our forests. Above: Stumps cut high leave 

 valuable timber in the woods. Removal of all the choice trees greatly degrades the 

 forest; and often it is 50 to 100 years before such areas can produce saw timber. 

 Below: The New York farmer who owns this white pine sold the trees for a 

 lump sum to a mill operator, who cut everything that would make a two-by-four, 

 and left ruin that it will take years to repair. A farm forester could have advised 

 the farmer on management and sales, suggested a fair selling price and proper 

 cutting practice, and saved the sturdy young trees for regular harvests in the future. 



