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AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION | 



1214 SIXTEENTH STREET WASHINGTON, D. C. 



our forests must be stopped and the 

 quicker the voice of the people is heard 

 in this connection the better for all con- 

 cerned. 



Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff: Is it not 

 high time we took steps along the lines 

 of the Snell Forestry Bill to cut our 

 freight bills for forest products and at the 

 same time to remove one of the serious 

 causes of freight car congestion by adopt- 

 ing a program which will put our 8i,ooo,- 

 ooo acres of wholly idle and 235,000,000 

 acres of partially idle lands to work? 



San Francisco Chroiticle: The period 

 of waste of our forest resources must now 

 definitely come to an end. So far as pos- 

 sible, cut trees must be completely utilized. 

 The wooded regions must be protected 

 from fire. Reproduction must be promoted 

 on all cut-over land. Such a policy re- 

 quires the eflfective co-operation of state, 

 national and local authorities and private 

 owners. 



through the shortage and high cost of tim- 

 ber, the United States is reduced to the 

 level of western Europe, when wood is 

 priced as an imported luxury, when not 

 only manufactures and trade are handi- 

 capped by lack of it but the comfort of 

 our own people and the efficiency of our 

 agriculture are straitened by its scarcity. 

 Abundance of wood for home and farm 

 use, for varied manufacturers and for ex- 

 port trade has been a primary factor in our 

 commercial supremacy, so important right 

 now, and it is a factor which we are not 

 going to surrender. The problem must 

 not be met by using less and less wood, 

 down to the level of civilized existence, as 

 France has been compelled to meet it. It 

 must be met not by decreased use but by 

 increased production the Association well 

 argues. It must be met in the American 

 spirit of development, of enterprise, of an 

 organized and far-sighted handling of our 

 resources that will supply the future re- 

 quirements of a continued liberal use of 

 timber in national development and in- 

 dustries. 



statement from the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, and we must admit that it takes 

 "some trees" to keep industry going in this 

 country. 



The tree is a lifetime proposition. A hur- 

 ricane wiped out millions of them in the 

 West the other day. A forest fire cut a 

 swath in Canada recently and consumed 

 trees that would have kept many factories 

 going. The Forestry .Association is work- 

 ing for a national forest policy which in- 

 cludes better fire protection methods. 1; 

 also wants us to get better acquainted with 

 trees. Under the pressure of necessity we 

 must make the best of the knowledge 

 we have of methods, imperfect though that 

 knowledge may be. The handling and per- 

 petuation of our forests in the last analysis 

 must, however, rest on a solid foundation 

 of careful and thorough forest investiga- 

 tions. 



Olympia {Wash.) Recorder: In consid- 

 ering a national forest policy we must con- 

 sider a disease. That disease is forest de- 

 vastation, the American Forestry Associ- 

 ation points out. Its effect is a slow sap- 

 ping of national strength ^through the 

 steady exhaustion of the national timber 

 supply. The effect will become fatal when. 



Trenton (N. J.) Times Advertiser: Do 

 you know that the annual consumption of 

 newsprint would make a two-foot strip of 

 newspaper reaching 40,000,000 miles or half 

 way to the sun? The war left us in a 

 state of mind whereby no set of figures 

 could stump us or give us pause until this 



St. Paul Pioneer Press: It cannot be 

 from lack of information on the subject 

 or due appreciation of its importance, be- 

 cause the ear of the people has fairly been 

 stunned with its reiteration ; but the fact 

 remains that Minnesota never has been 

 swept into real action in the matter of 

 reforestation. It will go on living on the 

 reputation of its great pine forests when 

 the last stick of merchantable timber has 

 disappeared and without a clear working 

 and workable policy of replacement. 



