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FOREST POLICY. 



TABLE No. 12. 



Percentage of Forest Area by States. 



STATES HAVING 

 OVER 70% 



Maine 



West Virginia 



North Carolina 



Georgia 



Alabama 



Arkansas (84%) 



Washington 



STATES HAVING 

 OVER 60% 



Michigan 

 Minnesota ' 

 South Carolina 

 Mississippi 

 Louisiana 

 Tennessee 

 Indian Territory- 

 Florida 



STATES HAVING STATES HAVING 

 OVER 50% OVER 40% 



New Hampshire Vermont 



Massachusetts New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Virginia 



Kentucky 



Wisconsin 



Oregon 



Missouri 



Maryland 

 Idaho 



STATES HAVING STATES HAVING STATES HAVING STATES HAVING 



OVER 30% OVER 20% OVER 10%' UNDER 10% 



New York D. of Columbia Illinois Dakota, North 



Delaware Ohio Iowa and South 



Connecticut Texas Oklahoma Nebraska 



Colorado IMontana Wyoming Kansas 



Rhode Island Arizona New Mexico Nevada 



California Utah 



Indiana 



TABLE No. 13. 



Data Relative to Present Standing Stock (Timber— Stumpage). 



(After B. E. Fernow.) 



FEET B. M. 



Southern States 700,000,000,000 



Northern States 500,000,000,000 



Pacific Coast 1,000,000,000,000 



Rocky Mountains 100,000,000,000 



Total forest wealth 2,300,000,000,000 



This forest wealth is sufficient to supply the commercial produc- 

 tion of the United States for fifty years, at the present rate of con- 

 sumption. 



(XXVI.) THE WORLD'S TIMBER SUPPLY. 



European experts, notably Dr. Wm. Schlich, predict a timber 

 famine — more especially of softwoods — in view of the fact that 

 Norway's and Austria-Hungary's surplus production is nearing an 

 end; that the world's population, and hence its timber demands, 

 increase rapidly. Russia, which Prof. Endres expects to fill the gap 

 in the waning supply, will cease to be a timber exporter, after M. 

 Melard, from the year 1950 on. 



Enormous tracts of untouched woodlands (coniferous) are still 

 found in Russia (516,000,000 acres of woodland, 60 per cent, of which 



