THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 191 

 Elms cleaned of old Bark. 



present rate of destruction the Redwoods and Coniferas of the 

 great Pacific slope will be swept away in fifty years. Not one 

 out of a hundred, if one out of a thousand, seem to realize the 

 gravity of the situation. They know the price of lumber is 

 ''going up." It seems that the great lumber companies have 

 competed so violently that they have kept the wholesale price 

 down. Though lumber is growing scarcer all the time, our fa- 

 cilities for hauling from the South or West are such that the 

 country will not wake up to the destruction of the forests until 

 the end, and the report comes back, "no more!" One feels like 

 sinking into the earth to even contemplate the end of the Ameri- 

 can forests, and yet this must come unless there is a general 

 awakening, conservation practiced with what we have, and re- 

 planting commenced with vigor. 



The Forest Congresses are throwing new life into those 

 interested in the work, but I fear, from the report jiist referred 



