INTRODUCTION 



woodlands and plantations or in inducing 

 owners of suitable lands to do so them- 

 selves. 



The war has made unusually large demands 

 on timber all over the Continent, as well as at 

 home, and it is quite possible that, with 

 foreign supplies greatly diminished, we will 

 be compelled to still further make severe 

 inroads on our own resources. To those who 

 rightly regard our forests as a national asset 

 it is quite plain that, in order to keep up 

 supplies for the future, replanting of ground 

 from which a timber crop has been cut and 

 the afforesting of fresh areas is the only feasible 

 way of facing the difficulty. 



When we consider that the total area of 

 woodlands in this country is only a little 

 over 2,000,000 acres, that fully 15,000,000 

 acres of waste lands exist, and that we an- 

 nually import over 10,000,000 tons of timber 

 at a cost of over 45,000,000, the necessity for 

 an increased area of woodlands will be apparent 

 to all, and all the more so as a dearth of timber 

 is imminent and outside supplies are being 



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