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carry on their own business and at the same time 

 plan for future generations, are rare. If the wood- 

 using industries have at last waked up and squarely 

 confronted the general peril, the rest of us, subject 

 to the same handicaps of human nature, had far 

 better enter into whole hearted cooperation rather 

 than sit back and indulge in carping criticisms. 



This does not mean, however, that the entire 

 industry has definitely adopted the practice of con- 

 servative cutting and forest planting on the Euro- 

 pean plan. The desirability, the ultimate necessity, 

 is evident; but it is clearly cheaper to cut every tree 

 on a given area once and for all, according to the 

 present methods, than to periodically re-visit the 

 same ground and select single specimens or patches 

 in order to promote natural regeneration. Roads, 

 railways, camps and machinery may be abandoned 

 or moved elsewhere at a less cost than is required 

 to maintain them for such occasional use. Artificial 

 planting, on the other hand, equally necessitates new 

 and increased expense. What the pulp and paper 

 manufacturers are doing, therefore, is chiefly in the 

 line of finding out how this increased cost may be 

 met. 



Practically speaking, forest management should 

 be the efficiency engineering of the wood-using 

 industries. We must get away from the habit of 



