5 Miscellaneous Circular 75, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



Something over 2,000,000,000 board feet of the saw timber and 

 products of these national forests is chestnut and chestnut is doomed 

 by the blight which is marching southward at an ever increasing 

 speed. This presents a problem in marketing, utilization, and wood 

 technology which must be worked out with the wood-consuming 

 industries, the Forest Products Laboratory, and the many land 

 owners who are involved in the same problem. The utilization of 

 chestnut is a bugbear to both the forester and the lumberman and 

 the avoidance of economic loss due to its destruction wirl continue 

 to be the major problem in the Appalachians for several years to 

 come. 



Fig. 5. — Hauling poles from the forest, Arnold's Valley. 



Forest, Va. 



Natural Bridge National 



THROUGH AN INDUSTRIAL CYCLE 



In the eastern United States the whole lumber industry has passed 

 through almost a complete cycle and there is no section or region 

 where the transformation has been more marked or more rapid than 

 it has been in the Appalachians. This section was not the scene of 

 large-scale logging until the depletion of the Pennsylvania hard- 

 woods was first felt back in the late eighties and early nineties. From 

 that time and until 1910, many large railroad and band-mill opera- 

 tions were established. Naturally enough labor of the regions soon 

 turned to woods work and furnished an adequate supply of trained 



