FOREST POLICY. 7 



3. To conserve or obtain national resources : 



(h) Lumber industry, pulp and fibre industry, and 



other wood consuming industries, 

 (i) Productiveness of native soil, 

 (j) Navigation ; water powers, 

 (k) Fuel supply. 



The desire of the private owner conflicts frequently with the 

 desire of the commonweal. 



The individual owner wants to use the forest to its utmost 

 capacity for his individual purposes; the public, on the other 

 hand, frequently wants the forest left to nature, since the bene- 

 ficial influences of the forest (a to g, also j) are supposed to be 

 best obtained from natural forests. 



A coppice forest is supposed to exercise a small influence on 

 the blessings derivable from the woods. 



