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on special surveys for bridge or dam sites, makes 

 time-studies of operations to determine fuel and 

 labor costs per unit of production, and conducts 

 experiments with new equipment. Fire protection 

 is not forgotten, as the closer touch between for- 

 ester and woods operations alone makes it more 

 easy of attainment, but the greatest advantage to 

 the owners comes through the fact that the life of 

 their operation is extended, and every new economy 

 introduced means just so much saving which may be 

 devoted to tree growing. 



This plan, however, is no panacea. The fact 

 that a few lumber or pulp concerns may find it pos- 

 sible to carry on a certain degree of reforestation, 

 even under existing conditions, does not alone 

 guarantee a perpetual and all sufficient supply of 

 wood products. Each logger, each manufacturer, 

 has his own specific problem to solve and each must 

 figure not only upon the new timber crop, fifty or 

 sixty years hence, but upon how the hiatus between 

 the exhaustion of the old supply and the maturity 

 of the young plantations may be bridged. A maxi- 

 mum of logging efficiency is indeed essential but it 

 must be supplemented by far-sighted study, by state 

 and federal aid based upon a practical knowledge 

 of the situation, and, most of all, by public educa- 

 tion in the aim of a sane forest policy. 



