2 9 2 ARBOR DAY 



relief from their distress. . . . Every nation 

 finds its hour of peril when there is no longer free 

 access to the land, or when the land will no longer 

 support the people. 



BY JAMES S. WHIFFLE, 



State Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner of 

 New York. 



The most imperative thing that we have to do 

 in America to-day is to save the forests of the 

 country. 



A FEW STATISTICS 



BY TREADWELL CLEVELAND, JR. 



From A Primer of Conservation, 1908 

 WE ARE now cutting timber from the forests of the 

 United States at the rate of 500 feet B. M. a year for 

 every man, woman, and child. In Europe they 

 use only 60 board feet. At this rate, in less than 

 thirty years all our remaining virgin timber will be 

 cut. Meantime, the forests which have been cut 

 over are generally in a bad way for want of care; 

 they will produce only inferior second growth. We 

 are clearly over the verge of a timber famine. 



This is not due to necessity, for the forests are one 

 of the renewable resources. Rightly used, they go 

 on producing crop after crop indefinitely. The 

 countries of Europe know this, and Japan knows it ; 



