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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



Ing a plan for future action. Having still a 

 considerable area of good forest, the problem is 

 there largely one of keeping out the fire and allow- 

 ing the pine and other woods to naturally reforest 

 themselves. Although New Hampshire and Ver- 

 mont are generally recognized as timber producing 



Lumber from 



PUBLICLY OWNED 

 F0RE5r5 



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

 from national or state forests. 



States, it is a less generally appreciated fact that 

 over one-half the area of Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut is also more suitable for growing 

 timber than for any other crop. Yet today the 

 railroad trains In all the New England states are 

 running over ties brought from the Pacific Coast, 

 and every wood-user is paying about twice as much 



