distant states for wood and pay many millions of dollars in 

 freight to get it. New York lias millions of acres suited for 

 forest growth only, that are growing no trees at all. 



WOOD FAMINIC NEAR 



The true index of our timber supply is not however, wholly 

 in the amount left but rather in its location or availability. 

 Sixty-one per cent of our remaining merchantable timber is 

 west of the Mississippi and 1/2 in the three Pacific coasl 

 states. We are fast becoming dependent upon the western 

 timber. Transporting it to New York spells expensive 

 lumber and higher eosts of living. 



It is up to us to grow timber here in the east where it is 

 needed and to commence right away. Trees grow slowly. 

 The sooner we start an adequate planting program the sooner 

 one of the big items of living eosts will be reduced and the 

 less serious will be the approaching wood famine. 



We must protect the forests that are left; we must reduce 

 the amount of waste in logging and manufacture and we 

 must put our idle lands to work growing timber. 



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