XV 



Page 

 If the present rate of forest destruction is maintained, it is safe to 

 estimate that within the Hfetime of a child born today our timber 

 resources will have practically vanished 91 



A large portion of the lumber used by our eastern states has to be 

 hauled clear across the continent 93 



The whole forest poHcy of European nations rests upon one basic 

 principle. Every time they cut a tree they take care that another 

 shall grow in its place 56 



Every year forest fires destroy enough good timber to build a row of v 

 five-room frame houses spaced one hundred feet apart on both -^ 

 sides of a highway from New York to Chicago 100 



What forest fires cost. The left hand pile of money represents the 

 value of timber and property destroyed in the last five years by 

 forest firos. The second pile represents the profits which might 

 be made in a single year by various interests concerned in building 

 and construction if the wood now consumed by forest fires could 

 be saved and put into houses. The third pile represents what 

 bankers and real estate men lose every year as the indirect result 

 of forest fire destruction 102 



Aerial forest patrol is a valuable weapon against the forest fire 

 demon 104 



The successful operation of federal forest protection depends upon 

 appropriations from Congress, and these have been thoroughly 

 inadequate to carry on the work 106 



The National Forests of the United States. The shaded areas 

 represent forest lands now owned and controlled by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture Ill 



Only about seventeen per cent of the forest land of the United States 

 is pubhcly owned 113 



Not over five per cent of the lumber on the market today comes 

 from national or state forests 118 



The aggregate of all the farmers' wood-lots in the country was in 1915 

 no less than two hundred million acres. This represents an area 

 as large as the whole of the New England states, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 124 



In the New England States we find today men who make more 

 money out of the annual wood crop than they do out of the rest 

 of the farm 126 



