are unsatisfactory, forest depletion is of increasing 

 seriousness, and our public forest policy is incomplete. 



It was pointed out that the lumber industry has been 

 seeking governmental aid along various lines, to help 

 it get on a more stable basis through curtailment of 

 production, relief from present methods of taxation, 

 price standards, and in other ways. In seeking such 

 help, however, the industry has failed to recognize any 

 obligation to provide for forest replacement after cut- 

 ting. While the injury and loss that accompany de- 

 moralized industrial conditions are necessarily of pub- 

 lic concern, the question of forest renewal and growth 

 on cut-over lands now left unproductive is still more 

 important. 



Forest renewal is of vital interest, Colonel Graves de- 

 clared, not only to the public but also to the owners of 

 timberlands. "We have enough non-agricultural 

 land, ' ' he said, ' ' to produce for all time lumber in abun- 

 dance, for ourselves and for export. The public must 

 share with the owners both the responsibility and the 

 burden of securing the essential objectives. Those 

 sought by the public are fundamentally the same as 

 those needed for the permanent well being of the lum- 

 ber industry. It is necessary to plan a program broad 

 enough to accomplish them. 



"I am ready to advocate a policy more far-reaching 

 in all respects than has generally been offered. I 

 would afford whatever public assistance is needed to 

 make possible the conservative handling of our for- 

 ests, and I would then make fire protection, conserva- 

 tive production of lumber, and right methods of re- 

 moval a matter of requirement, with such public direc- 



