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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



POWER AND PULPWOOD COMBINED 



Waterfall at head of E-Ral-ik Bay, Prince William Sound, Alaska, a possible source of power for a 

 paper mill and dense forest of pulpwoods on the mountain side. 



public holdings, state and Federal alike. 



Practically all European countries 

 have found that a considerable body 

 of publicly owned forests was essential 

 in working out their problem of keeping 

 up continuous forest production. The 

 United States will prove no exception to 

 this rule; and the building up of state 

 and Federal forest holdings, under ex- 

 pert, non-partisan administration, is one 

 of the most important steps to insure a 

 future supply of paper as well as other 

 basic forest products. 



On the 165 million acres of Federal 

 forest holdings in the National Forests, 

 the timber is being used under scientific 

 methods of cutting as there is demand 

 for it and the lands denuded by old fires 

 are being reforested by planting to the 

 extent of 20,000 acres annually. Fed- 

 eral holdings also are being extended by 

 purchase in the Eastern States, under the 

 Weeks Law, for the protection of navi- 

 gable streams. 



State Forest Reserves 



A number of states have made valu- 

 able beginnings in this direction. Penn- 

 sylvania has acquired state forest 

 reserves aggregating more than a million 

 acres and consisting largely of culled or 

 cut-over lands which the State has been 



of them culled or cut over, in order to 

 insure a future supply of raw material 

 to protect the enormous investments rep- 

 resented by their paper plants. In a few 

 instances, a limited amount of plantinghas 

 been done. Considerable areas of inferior 

 pasture land, worn-out farms, and the 

 like in New England have been restocked 

 with trees, either through a gradual rever- 

 sion to forest by natural causes or by 

 artificial planting, because their owners 

 have realized that these lands of low value 

 could be utilized to the best advantage 

 for producing wood. 



In other sections, like considerable 

 portions of the Lake States, reforestation 

 is not coming about through economic 

 development, or is coming about so slowly 

 that it will be far behind the need of 

 forest-using industries for raw material. 

 In such regions public initiative and enter- 

 prise must take the lead. Probably the 

 greatest need is for an intelligent, far- 

 sighted administration of the forest lands 

 now in public ownership, in one form 

 or another, and for the addition of cut- 

 over forest lands of low value to the 



AN ADIRONDACK FOREST 



Heart Pond and Mount Mclntyre from Mount Jo. Typical Forest clearly shown; mixed hardwoodson 

 lower levels with balsam fir and red spruce on margin of pond. Spruce and balsam dominate on higher 

 elevations. 



