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THE FORESTER. 



November, 



In no part of the country is wider in- 

 terest being shown in conservative forest 

 management bv private owners than in the 

 Southern States. Up to date the amount 

 of private lands in the South for which 

 advice in handling has been asked of the 

 Bureau of Forestry is 1,534,000 acres, and 

 a very large part of the work which will 

 be done by the Bureau for private owners in 

 the immediate future will be in that section. 



The industrial development of the South 

 on all sides during the last ten years has 

 been remarkable, but no single industry 

 has made greater strides than the lumber 

 business. This is not surprising when it 

 is considered that the Southern States con- 

 tain a greater percentage of forest area 

 than any other section of the United States. 

 The South has become a very important 

 factor in the lumber markets of the world, 



Within recent years many lumbermen 

 from the North have been attracted to the 

 southern field ; the forests of Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, and Wisconsin having been 

 almost exhausted, many of the leading 

 woodmen of those states are now engaged 

 in cutting timber in the South. The 

 forests of the three states just mentioned 

 were once considered inexhaustible, but 

 once lumbering begins in earnest no forest 

 area is inexhaustible. The present con- 

 ditions of the forests in many northern and 

 eastern states is sufficient evidence on this 

 point. 



The South now has a great army of 

 lumbermen cutting away its forests, and 

 in spite of their great extent, unless the 

 cutting is done on conservative lines, the 

 day is not far distant when the conditions 

 now existing in the North and East will 





A SPRUCE FOREST IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS, NORTH CAROLINA. 



not only through its wealth of forests, but 

 from the fact that it has unusually good 

 transportation facilities. In reaching the 

 home markets Southern lumbermen have 

 the advantage of a number of excellent 

 railroad systems to handle their products 

 and such important seaports as Norfolk, 

 Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Tampa, 

 New Orleans and Galveston provide ex- 

 cellent outlets through which to reach the 

 foreign markets. 



be found there also. For this reason it is 

 encouraging to see the interest in practi- 

 cal forestry displayed by the owners of 

 private timberlands. This tendency to 

 cut timber conservatively, looking to the 

 future value of the forests, as well as to 

 present profits, must be the safeguard. 

 Conservative methods are now being taken 

 up in the North when almost too late, and 

 it will be greatly to the credit of southern 

 lumbermen if they begin the protection of 



