Washington, D. C. February, 1928 
TIMBER GROWING AND LOGGING PRACTICE IN THE LAKE STATES 
By RAPHAEL ZON 
Director, Lake States Forest Hxperiment Station 
Introduction by W. B. GREELEY, Forester, Forest Service 
INTRODUCTION 
Forestry in the United States is no longer a theory, a subject for 
discussion, or a practice limited to public lands. It has gotten down 
to concrete things in the woods. The growing of timber is making 
headway in practical measures for protecting forest’ growth from 
fires, in logging timber so as to produce a new crop, and in plant- 
ing forest trees on denuded areas. Timber values and other economic 
considerations are causing landowners more and more widely to 
study the possibilities of reforestation. There is a general demand 
for information on how to grow timber and on what timber growing 
will cost. 
Timber culture in this country, like the growing of farm crops, 
is governed necessarily by our own soil and climate, by the require- 
ments of our forest trees, and by our own economic circumstances. 
Lessons may be drawn from the experience of other countries; but 
profitable methods adapted to the wide range of forest and economic 
conditions in the United States can be developed only from our 
own experience and investigation. 
The Forest Service is bringing together the results of this ex- 
perience and investigation in a series of publications dealing with 
the 12 principal forest regions of the United States. The informa- 
tion has been gathered from many different sources, including the 
experience of landowners who are practicing forestry; and the 
results have been verified as far as possible by consultation with 
forest industries, State foresters, and forest schools. These publica- 
tions thus undertake to set forth, in a simple form, what are believed 
te be the soundest methods of reforestation yet developed in the 
common experience and study of the United States. 
No finality is claimed for the measures proposed. Forestry in 
every country has been a gradual evolution in industrial methods 
and woods practices. Much is yet to be learned about growing 
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