rv "DAotroyera of human opportunitios". I am 

 -> nay that t-i?.s inprnusion is raj-i-ily going out of the 

 r of the American people who havo hfmr and are moot 

 IT.' ' ly affcotod Ly th^ withdrawal of theao largo aroaa of 

 .in roeouroea. 



iJu i or ^B try. 



The forofct movement in thin courtry han aria^n out of 

 ,'nfii.ite internal noorle, t*o inportance of which hue 

 not he'r. hotter ex.TRisuod than in the word.o of former Iroeident 



The format problem* is, in rany ways, tho noat vital 

 : . L probler. in the United 



wl.y is thia true? It i". true Vcaua our 

 foropt rosourc^B arc InBepe-rably linked arid Trran^ed up v;ith 

 all th? oth.-^r important ro source a rjnd in-'uotrion in this Kreat 

 oouiitry. It is hard to concoivo of an Industry or resource 

 which io not ind.iroctly if not dirctly affooted by our 



sts, vrhothor publicly or privately arned. Any injury to 



or- roaources, therefore, mur.t noceoaarily refloot injury 

 to all othera oven re-notoly rolatod to them. *t la true bo- 



. e our future timber supply io already a serioua problem. 

 It is true tecauao publicly owned foreota cover only onn 

 foufcth of the total foront aroa and only one fifth of tho 

 tinfcnr standing, while tho regaining four f ifthn ie in private 

 ownership, on vhich forestry i^ acarooly rracticod at all. 



Thia loaves it up to the Foroet Service, not onl** to 

 utili/.o to tho boat advantago our naturo timber on the "National 

 Forosta, but to provide as far as poosiblw for a futtire cut 

 and at the sane tire, ty precept and oxauple, undertake to 

 convince private owners of the necessity anc! wisdom of con- 

 servatively handling thoir foreata. 



A carHful inventory a few years ago showed that 90 

 r c.'-r.t of the foreota in private hands was -.'rvaatated by 

 destructive USA and tbe scourge of unchec'^d fires, while less 

 than one ; er cont was properly handled for successive oropn 

 or effectively protected from fire. Tho conservation of the 

 public forests io a large task, but it la the s-naller one be- 

 fore the nation. T*e larger tas': ia to induce ^rlvate ornera, 

 '' . 0,CCO of men, to ta'-e care of that they have. 'tth those 



ts befor^ ua it ohould -na*:e little difference to ^rivate 

 or Stzfe public tln;br ir.teresta '/bother the proaent rate of 



: tion, and vmato, an.", lo.ia, rill oxhaust our timber 

 -7 in twenty years or in fifty yeara, or a hur.dred years. 

 ubose periods cf tirta r.uet bo struck from the calendar. 

 country cannot affori, either fron tho otan-'^oint cf public 

 ros'. selTish private intereata, from the ctandpoint of 



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