AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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BY EDITORS FROM COAST TO COAST 



Indianapolis Star: It has dawned on the 

 tree owners that there is such a thing as 

 killing the goose that lays the golden egg; 

 or, to be more specific, totally to destroy 

 forests to provide paper for market. Even 

 if the paper supply is short and its price 

 high, the fact is realized that the time 

 should not be hastened when there will be 

 no wood pulp and no paper from that 

 source. The Canadians of Quebec province 

 have undertaken to plant two trees for 

 every one that is cut down and to do it as 

 soon as possible after the cutting. Last 

 year 3.000,000 spruce trees and as many 

 pines were planted. The two-to-one sys- 

 tem universally applied would soon solve 

 the reforestation problem. 



Thomasville (Ga.) Times-Enterprise: A 

 careful analysis of conditions presents the 

 conclusion that lumber in this country is 

 being used up at a rate of about four times 

 that at which it is being produced. The 

 commercial association and other organi- 

 zations might take up this problem along 

 with its agriculture and hogs and make 

 permanent forests while it is making perma- 

 nent pastures. 



Salt Lake City Xews: Among the im- 

 portant measures presented to Congress is 

 a bill outlining a comprehensive national 

 forest program, including better fire pro- 

 tection for the forests. Provisions of the 

 bill have been worked out by a committee 

 widely representative of those directly in- 

 terested in the welfare of the forests, in- 

 cluding the general public. According to 

 Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the 

 American Forestry Association, it is really 

 the first united move in this direction in 

 the history of the country. Endeavors have 

 long since been put forth for preservation 

 and control of the forests, but not in the 

 comprehensive and far-reaching proportions 

 that the proposed new law contemplates. 

 The bill calls for national appropriations 

 of not less than $11,000,000 a year. Not 

 until the comparatively recent past has the 

 seriousness of the deforestation of this 

 country been brought home to the peo- 

 ple. And even now there are many who do 

 not realize how much the condition of the 

 forests means to American industry and 

 welfare, nor the need for strenuous efforts 

 to prevent complete destruction of the 

 forest resources. 



Milwaukee Journal: The national gov- 

 ernment is asked to appropriate $10,000,000 

 a year for five years to increase the nation's 

 forest reserves, to reforest its own denuded 

 lands and make forest lands continuously 

 productive, and to sipend $1,000,000 a year 

 in assisting the States to protect forests 



not owned by the national government. 

 These proposals are features of a pro- 

 gram that is sponsored by the American 

 Newspaper Publishers' Association, the 

 American Pulp and Paper Association, the 

 National Lumbermen's Association, the 

 Association of Wood Using Industries and 



A CANADIAN VIEW 



The American Forestry Associa- 

 tion calls the attention of the country 

 to the view Canada takes of her 

 forest resources as reflected in the 

 Montreal Daily Star. The editorial 

 follows: 



PRESERVE OUR FORESTS 

 "If what is lost in forest fires 

 could be evaded the entire debt 

 of the Province would be paid 

 off in fifteen years." Premier 

 Taschereau. 



Montreal Daily Star: One of the 

 greatest assets of this Province is the 

 forest, and it is shameful that fire 

 should work such havoc with it. 

 Our forest areas, the envy of other 

 countries, are being depleted not so 

 much by the woodman's ax as by 

 negligence and lack of closer forest 

 supervision 



In his address before the Board 

 of Trade, Mr. James White, deputy 

 head of the Commission of Conser- 

 vation, also earnestly warned that 

 our forest reserves were not inex- 

 haustible and that more effective 

 efforts would have to "oe put forth 

 to protect forests from fires and in- 

 sect pests. The interesting statement 

 was made by Mr. White that the de- 

 pletion of timber in the United States 

 had been responsible for the phe- 

 nomenal development of Canada's 

 pulp and paper industry, where ex- 

 ports of newsprint had grown from 

 twenty-five thousand tons in 1910 to 

 seven hundred thousand tons in 1920. 



The potentialities of forest wealth 

 are becoming more and more appar- 

 ent with the passing years. The pres- 

 ervation of the forests is a matter of 

 national concern, and too much care 

 cannot be exercised in protecting 

 them from fires. 



the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association. The program is modest, if 

 anything too conservative. For the amount 

 that Congress is asked to appropriate for 

 reforestation falls far below the country's 

 needs. Thirty or forty years ago it would 

 have been sufficient. Conditions are worse 

 now, timber is scarce and costly, and not 

 only would more radical measures be wise, 

 but they are called for by the logic of the 

 situation. Nevertheless since the program 

 provides for the inauguration of national 

 reforestation. Congress should not hesitate 

 to adopt this plan or similar plans. Nor 

 should it delay. Already years that would 

 permit planted trees to grow to marketable 



size have been wasted. A national program 

 is not sufficient. All the timber States 

 should engage extensively in acquiring 

 large tracts of non-agricultural land, add- 

 ing to them from year to year, and in re- 

 foresting them. 



New York Commercial and Financial 

 Chronicle: The gospel of forestry and re- 

 forestation is not a matter of times and 

 seasons ; it is for all times and all sea- 

 sons. Let us all resolve here and now to 

 strive more vigorously than ever to save 

 the forests we love so well, the forests 

 that have sheltered us from the heat in our 

 vacations, and given us some of the great- 

 est pleasures of our lives. A program with 

 this end in view has been outlined in the 

 form of demands for action by national 

 and State legislatures. 



Madison (Wis.) Democrat: The Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association has taken up 

 betimes a renewed campaign for promotion 

 of a policy for forest preservation with a 

 view of congressional legislation. United 

 States Forester William B. Greeley has ex- 

 pressed his approval of the plan, and prac- 

 tically all interests are united thereon, in- 

 cluding the government authorities, (pub- 

 lishers, lumber manufacturers, paper and 

 pulp manufacturers, wood-using industries 

 and forest conservation associations. The 

 rapid approach of an impending wood and 

 paper famine is commanding the most 

 serious consideration. 



Washington Herald: The Forest Indus- 

 tries Program Committee has reached a 

 definite and very practical program of for- 

 est preservation. This committee repre- 

 sents a combination of all the various bodies 

 interested in or based upon timber protec- 

 tion ; the Forestry Association, lumber in- 

 terests, paper users, paper manufacturers, 

 and others. 



Plattsburg Press: Everybody agrees that 

 we are running short of wood, though but 

 few appreciate the actual situation. What 

 we need as much as anything else in this 

 connection is a real National Forest Policy. 

 Thank Heaven a bill will be introduced 

 in the coming session of Congress pro- 

 viding for just this and may it find ready 

 response among our lawmakers in Wash- 

 ington. It is everybody's business today 

 to shout for forest protection. Indiana 

 has an area of twenty-two million and a 

 half acres and at one time She State was 

 covered with one of the best hardwood 

 forests in the world, says the American 

 Forestry Association in pointing out the 

 need of action for a national forestry 

 policy. 



