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AMERICAN FORF.STR^' 



ing her ships to the importation of food. Great Britain 

 awoke to find her forest resources far below their pos- 

 sible extent or productive capacity. To supply the pit 



GROWING MINE PROPS TOR THE FUTURE 



Almost at the back door of the famous Welsh coal mines these 

 men arc preparing the ground for a plantation of Douglas fir, 

 which, because of its very rapid growth, will supply pit-props 

 from the required thinnings in a minimum period of time. 



props for her mines and help take care of other war 

 and home needs one-half of all the productive wood- 

 lands of the United Kingdom fell before the ax. 



A GLIMPSE OF LOCH NESS 



In the foreground may be observed a small plantation of Doug- 

 las fir made during the war. This is a portion of one of the 

 many private estates the acquisition of which by the British For- 

 estry Commission has been made possible through the financial 

 break-up of many of the old landed families. 



THE FORESTER'S FRIEND 



Small scattered sawmills such as this one among the mountains of northern Scotland ren- 

 der the creation of new forests commercially practical by supplying a nearby market for 

 the timber. 



When peace came and ship- 

 ping was released, England 

 might have gone on as before, 

 but the treaty of peace showed 

 only too clearly that not only 

 were future wars possible, but 

 that certain international hatreds 

 were receiving freer play. The 

 British military authorities were 

 among the first to urge the refor- 

 estation of the woodlands cut 

 during the war, and the investi- 

 gation committee which was the 

 outgrowth of their efforts 

 brought forward a still more 

 astounding fact. The United 

 States and Canada, said the re- 

 port, were rapidly advancing to- 

 ward a degree of destructive de- 

 forestation which would even- 

 tually remove them from consid- 

 eration as large timber exporting 



