gardless of the cause, this country cannot afford to allow 

 destructive forest practices to continue. The public 

 values are too great. 



WHAT FORESTS MEAN 



11. What interest has labor in forests? 



More than a million workers and their families obtain 

 their living directly from the forests—in work in the 

 woods, in lumber and paper mills, and in wood-using 

 industries. The forests contribute indirectly to the sup- 

 port of many millions more— for example, in the railroad 

 and other transportation industries, in the construction 

 industries, in water and power utilities, in retailing, in 

 sporting goods manufacture, and in businesses serving 

 tourists and recreation. Forest payrolls help to support 

 many other industries and services. 



Steady jobs in forest-supported industries can of 

 course come only from steadily producing forests. The 

 history of lumbering in the United States has been 

 largely a matter of resource liquidation — taking out the 



ABANDONED LUMBER COMMUNITY. This community went 

 to ruin when local timber supplies were exhausted. 



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