NEW YORK'S FORESTS AND THEIR FUTURE 



been estimated 

 that the annu- 

 al lumber bill 

 of the State is 

 over sixty mil- 

 lion dollars, 

 about two- 

 thirds of which 

 goes outside of 

 the State." 



Consider 

 this just a 

 minute. New 

 York uses, 

 each year, one 

 and three- 

 quarters billion 

 board feet of 

 lumber. It 

 produces each 

 year only 335,- 



PULP WOOD CUT FROM A SINGLE SPRUCE TREE IN THE ADIRONDACK FOREST 



519 



"Caesar." But 

 "Caesar" is a 

 word of two 

 syllables. The 

 first syllable is 

 the relation of 

 what we use to 

 what we pro- 

 duce. The sec- 

 ond syllable is 

 the relation of 

 what we pro- 

 duce to our 

 available sup- 

 plies of wood 

 and their re- 

 plenis h m e n t. 

 In other 

 words, regret- 

 table as it is to 

 find New York 



000,000 board feet, or about one-fifth of what is used ! having to call on neighbor states for her manufactured 



So, also in pulpwood. Each year New York State, forest products, it would not be so bad if the remain- 



the second greatest pulp and paper making State in the ing forest areas of the State were being kept productive 



union, uses a million cords of pulpwood. It produces up to their maximum capacity. France and Germany, 



each year only half a million cords. the leading exponents of proper forest management, have 



Thus it is evident that, "Brutus" (in the sense that never been able to supply the national needs for wood 



"Brutus" is the public, as in Barrie's play) is killing without recourse to importation. But the "second sylla- 



Table showing, for the chief timber trees in New York State, the relation between the Actual Volume Cut (Col. II) 

 and the Volume which could be cut without diminishing the Growing Stock (Col. III). Also showing the relation 

 between the Actual Volume of Standing Timber (Col. V) and the Volume needed to support the present rate of 

 cutting (Col. VI). 



I II III IV V VI VII 



Species Actual Cut Allowable Cut ^Sam* Actual v lme Needed Volume ^Tnd' v" 



