THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



The annual growth of well-managed for- 

 ests in such a region as the United States 

 may be taken as fifty cubic feet per acre per 

 annxmi. Actually, we are growing about 

 twelve cubic feet per acre per annum. 



Our timber is being used up nearly three 

 times faster than it is growing. 



No other Nation has so large a consump- 

 tion of timber per capita as the United 

 States. We use about 250 cubic feet of 

 wood per year for every man, woman, and 

 child in the coimtry. 



Our present forest area, assuming that we 

 have a population of 100,000,000, is about 

 five and one-half acres per person. Clear- 

 ing land for farms, and other causes, will 

 doubtless reduce our forest area to 450,000,- 

 000 acres. When our population reaches 

 150,000,000, and our forest area the amount 

 just given, we shall have only three acres 

 for each inhabitant, or at our present rate 



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