8 INTRODUCTION 



Does It Pay? 



Practically all this loss is unnecessary. Other countries 

 have stopped the forest fire evil. Other countries have 

 found a way to make forest land continue to grow forest. 

 Consequently we can. It is clearly only a question of 

 whether it is worth while. Let us consider this question, 

 not only in its relation to posterity or to the lumberman, 

 but from the standpoint of the average citizen of the West 

 today. 



