forester must use the harvesting of the mature crop as an opportunity to get 

 rid of the overmature, diseased, and inferior trees, and to reserve for the next 

 crop the young vigorous trees of the most valuable species. 



Cooperation in protection needed. — One might assume that privately owned 

 forests would have better protection than those publicly owned, but this is 

 often not the case. Forest protection costs money and many owners do not 

 feel they can afford it. Others are forced by financial circumstances to get 

 an immediate cash return and cannot manage their forest land for future 

 benefits and profits. Often in such instances, all seed trees are removed, 

 the new growth is not protected, the immature trees are cut along with 

 mature trees, and fire is allowed to destroy the young growth and the soil. 

 The public benefits from forests justify State and Federal Governments 

 helping forest owners protect forest lands. 



Forests in abundance. — With forests managed as foresters know how, 

 neither this nor future generations need deny themselves any of the benefits 

 of living in forest lands. 



Leads to Further Study 

 Things to do: 



1. Make maps of the United States showing: (a) Main forest regions; 

 (F) main river systems whose headwaters are in the forests; (c) comparison 

 of forest areas in 1620 and the present; (jf) comparison of forest areas and 

 areas of heaviest rainfall. 



2. Make graphs showing lumber production and consumption expressed 

 in board feet or value in dollars: Qa) By countries, (F) by States, (V) by 

 years, QP) by species of tree, (i) per capita. 



Make similar graphs for pulpwood production and consumption. 



3. Make graphs showing: (a) Forest acreage by States or countries; (F) 

 commercial and noncommercial forest in the United States; (c) Federal, 

 State, and private ownership of forest lands by States or countries; (d) 

 exports and imports by countries; (/) interstate forest commerce in the 

 United States; (/) value of different wood species in United States. 



4. Make a relief map of the United States by using the salt and flour 

 mixture of papier-mache. (Paper towels, torn up, boiled, and stirred well 

 with a little starch added will serve as a substitute for papier-mache. You 

 will have to experiment with it.) Color coniferous forest areas dark 

 green, hardwood areas a lighter green, and mixed areas mottled, snow- 

 capped mountains white, rivers and lakes blue, principal forest-industrial 

 cities black, aqueducts for city-water supply broken blue lines . In discussing 

 the map bring out such points as: The main rivers rise in the forests, 

 and the dependence of cities such as Portland, Oreg., on the lumber indus- 

 try, and Los Angeles and New York on forests for their water supply. 



5. Make jigsaw puzzle maps of the United States cut on lines of forest 

 regions (figs. 2 and 6). 



6. Make flash cards on some of the text questions. 



7. Make word puzzles such as the following : A six-letter word meaning a 

 community of trees. Answer: Forest. 



8. Secure a piece of hardwood and a piece of softwood and compare their 

 weights (density), and ease with which they may be cut, dented, and split. 



9. List as many uses of the forest as you can find. Divide the list into 

 two parts, one being the uses of wood and the other the uses of the standing 

 forest. 



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