Forest Conservation 



By T. B. Walker 



If the same rate of consumption of timber continues as has 

 prevailed in the past, our supply of lumber will be prac- 

 tically exhausted within the next thirty years, provided that 

 no effective means and methods are entered upon for protect- 

 ing, conserving, and reforesting. 



But the case is not one which is past all surgery by any 

 means. Nor is it an incurable malady, but one that re- 

 quires good, vigorous, sound treatment on practical lines. 

 As expressed by the leader and head of this movement: 

 "If we fail in the conservation of our natural resources, we 

 will fail in all others." There are policies to be devised, 

 arranged and put in operation. These should provide for 

 the conservation and general control of private holdings as 

 well as the government reserves, and for their supervision 

 and protection. It will involve radical departures from 

 the past and prevailing methods, the development of new 

 processes of economical logging and manufacture, as well 

 as reforestation. 



Investigations should not be confined to summarizing 

 present conditions. They should be directed largely to de- 

 termining the causes which have been responsible for de- 



