UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 638 



Contribution from the Forest Service 

 HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 



Washington, D. C. 



April 8, 1918 



FORESTRY AND COMMUNITY 

 DEVELOPMENT 



By 



SAMUEL T. DANA, Assistant Chief of 

 Forest Investigations 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Too Little Attention Paid to Some Effects 



of Forest Devastation 1 



Why Our Forests Have Been Devastated . 2 

 Neglected Evils of Destructive Lum- 

 bering 3 



A Roving Lumber Industry 3 



Abandoned Towns 4 



Deserted Farms . ........ 6 



Local Shortages of Timber 8 



Speculation 10 



Community Development Interrupted 16 



Page 

 Neglected Evils, etc.— Continued. 



Abandoned Railroads 19 



A Lower Standard of Population. . . 20 

 Suggestions for a Rational Timberland 



Policy 21 



Need for a Different System of Han- 

 dling Forest Lands 21 



Land Classification 23 



Continuous Forest Production ... 25 



Stability of Policy 28 



Public Control and Ownership ... 30 



Community Benefits ....... 32 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1918 



