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agements will be removed as soon as the public realizes the 

 situation. The owner who anticipates this and gets his crop 

 started first will be the first to profit from it, and since it is 

 the compounding toward the latter end of the rotation which 

 now appears serious, the chances are that he will not have a 

 heavy burden before relief of this kind arrives. 



(d) Every owner of virgin timber which he expects to 

 hold uncut for 10 years or more should consider reforestation 

 of adjacent cut-over land in the light of fire protection also. 

 It is the inflammable, sun-dried, brake-covered openings, 

 yearly increasing in extent, which constitute his greatest fire 

 menace. The conversion of these into green young growth, 

 too dense for fern and salal and destructible only by the hot- 

 test crown fires, is the best protection he can give mature 

 timber surrounded by them. Some additional expense for a 

 few years to accomplish this will usually be cheaper and safer 

 than the patrol otherwise required for an indefinite period. 



(e) Advance in value of the land itself, realizable when 

 the second crop is cut, will in many cases be great enough to 

 make an otherwise unpromising reforestation investment 

 profitable. 



HAKDWOOD EXPERIMENTS 



In the foregoing pages consideration has been given to the 

 growing of native coniferous species only. ' There is a field, 

 however, yet to be entered into by the timber grower in the 

 Pacific Northwest, which gives promise of good returns. This 

 is the growing of eastern hardwoods. As is well known, the 

 supply of native hardwoods in this region is deficient and 

 those occurring are of poor quality. The demand for staple 

 hardwoods is constant, and at present can be filled only 

 through importation from the East. Moreover, the manufac- 

 turing industry in the Pacific Northwest is as yet only in its 

 infancy, and as this industry becomes of greater importance 

 in the future, the demand for hardwood lumber is bound to 



