SHALL WE WASTE OUR FOREST 

 RESOURCES 



THE time seems to have come for extending the 

 practice of forestry beyond the limits of the state 

 and national forests. The lumbermen are beginning to 

 feel the need of certain concessions in the way of tax 

 reforms and better fire protection if they are going to 

 be able to manage their business on the most economical 

 basis and get a little permanency into it. The paper 

 makers feel it even more keenly. The public, on the 

 other hand, is tired of seeing the area of non-produc- 

 tive cut over land steadily increase while they are 

 obliged to pay even increasing prices for lumber. They 

 are beginning to recognize the inconsistency of ship- 

 ping timber from the far Pacific coast at high freight 

 rates while hundreds of square miles of good forest 

 land lies unproductive within the borders of the state. 



It is not a question that can be -settled in a minute. It 

 will require big concessions on both sides, but they are 

 reasonable concessions which both sides will find to be 

 to their advantage in the end. Col. H. S. Graves, Chief 

 of the U. S. Forest Service, in a speech delivered be- 

 fore the American Lumber Congress in Chicago on 

 April 16th outlined the situation pretty much as fol- 

 lows. 



Lumbermen, said Colonel Graves, are studying the 

 needs of the industry and are doing many constructive 

 things to increase its efficiency. Nevertheless, the 

 great fundamental problems are not being solved. The 

 industry is still essentially unstable, labor conditions 



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