Contribution from the Forest Service, 
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 
Washington, D.C. Vv April 15, 1916 
FOREST CONSERVATION FOR STATES IN THE | 
_ SOUTHERN PINE REGION. 
By J. Girvin PETERS, Chief of State Cooperation. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. Page 
The situation summed up. ..-.---.--.--------- 1) Horestamanar ements ssa ee ee 8 
What the lumber industry means to the Dibave-OwmMed! TOLeStss esse cess ee ce eerie 8 
Eouthem pine: States... 2. -2o..-.-2. 2. 05s2..% SU IORI anes ent p ya yees Se eo eg emery ue olen 9 
LINGYP SY BTEL ROS 700 Si RRS a lt i 4 | Eow the Federal Government will aid....... 12 
Winrestrictedserazineg. cli... s2-<- 2c ~ see e et ee Mee LUGO AGING ce hee Ces een ee ee eee Be 14 
THE SITUATION SUMMED UP. 
A situation confronts the States of the southern pine region—Vir- 
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Misissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri—which, unless 
met and controlled by adequate legislation, threatens seriously to 
affect their future development and prosperity. The situation arises 
from the removal of the pine and hardwood forests without proper 
provision for restocking those cut-over areas, valuable chiefly for the 
growing of timber, and from the destruction by fire of the young 
trees and other vegetation on watersheds of important rivers, which 
carries with it increased erosion, the silting up of stream channels, 
and danger from floods. 
If cutting continues at the present rate without provision being 
made for new timber crops, southern yellow pine will in the course 
of time cease to be an important commercial resource of the South. 
It is now one of the chief sources of wealth, but it is probable that 
Norn.—The bulletin points out the essential elements in the various forest problems 
that confront the States in the southern pine region, shows how these problems are inter- 
related, and forms a basis on which may be founded a plan for solving them—matters 
of great importance to lumbermen, farmers, and all others interested directly or indirectly 
in the conservation of the timber resources of that region. 
- 25987°-——Bull. 36416 
