CONTENTS 



PREFACE 

 What This Book Is About, and Why 3 



INTRODUCTION 



What We Have in the West. What We Are Doing With It. 



Does It Pay? 7 



CHAPTER I. FORESTRY AND THE PUBLIC 



Importance of Forests as a Community Resource. Wealth Their 

 Manufacture Brings to All Industries. Value as Source of 

 Tax Revenue. Our Interest as Consumers. Real Issue Not 

 Property Protection but Conditions of Life for All. Par- 

 ticularly Favorable Natural Forest Conditions on Pacific 

 Coast. Present Policy of Waste. Fire Loss. Idleness of Defor- 

 ested Land. Action We Must Take. Fire Prevention. 

 Reforestation. Tax Reform. Public Responsibility. Essen- 

 tials of Needed State Policy. Duty of the Average Citizen. 9 



CHAPTER II. FORESTRY AND THE LUMBERMAN 



Economic Principles Governing Forest Production. Supply and 

 Demand. Lumberman Must Consider Both Profit of For- 

 estry and Popular Demand for Its Practice. Consumer Must 

 Pay for Growing Timber. Attitude of State Will Become 

 More Encouraging. How All This Affects the Lumberman. 

 Should Plan for Meeting the Situation. Circumstances that 

 Determine Profit. Who Can Afford to Reforest Cut-over 

 Land? 25 



CHAPTER III. FORESTRY AND THE FOREST 



Technical and Practical Problems. Elementary Principles of 

 Forest Growth. Fundamental Systems of Management. 

 Nature as a Model. Logging to Insure Another Crop. 

 Natural and Artificial Reproduction. Details of Manage- 

 ment for Each Western Species. Seeding and Planting. 

 Costs and Carrying Charges. Rate of Growth. Probable 

 Financial Returns. Hardwood Experiments 37 



