ii8 Conservation Reader 



These regions were settled later than the Eastern states, 

 and parts of them are yet remote from markets. 



Our wise lumbermen are beginning to understand that it 

 is better to cut over the forest carefully, so that by and by 

 there will be another crop. Nature is doing all she can to 

 keep up the supply of trees, and, if we give her half a chance, 

 there will be timber enough both for us and for those that 

 come after us. The forest crop is like any other crop, ex- 

 cept that it cannot be cut every year. 



Every one should understand that he has an interest in 

 the forest. Although he may not own a foot of land, yet 

 his prosperity depends in part on how the forests are man- 

 aged. 



If the forests are not taken care of, there will sometime 

 be a wood famine. If the mountain slopes are stripped of 

 their trees, the streams will no longer run clear and the low 

 streams in summer will lead to a water famine, which in 

 turn might easily cause a bread famine. 



