16 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



chestnut, oak and cypress, all particularly suitable 

 for use as poles; yet, because we have considered 

 the forests inexhaustible and have made no effort 

 to see that a new tree should grow beside the dis- 

 mantled stump, those species are rapidly vanishing. 



Only when radio entirely displaces the ordinary telephone will wood 

 poles be no longer needed. 



Today thousands of cedar poles are brought from 

 Idaho to supplement the diminishing eastern supply, 

 but how long will the Idaho forests last? Will they 

 not soon go the way of all the rest? 



Fortunately the commercial use of wood preserv- 



