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Employment and wages for thousands of workers are bound up with continued and 

 increasing usefulness of wood in modern life. 



sive erosion, in providing shelter and 

 protection for homes, crops, and live- 

 stock against wind and drought, in pro- 

 viding forage, in supplying recreational 

 needs, and in furnishing the environ- 

 mental conditions upon which wildlife 

 of the country depends. In addition it 

 is desirable that a reasonable area of 

 forested land be reserved in its virgin 

 condition for scientific and recreational 

 use. All these benefits, though not easily 

 appraised, in the aggregate represent 

 great values to the public. 



While the growing of timber on these 

 lands for the many products demanded 

 by modern civilization represents the 

 more tangible economic value or use, 

 the mere production of an increased 

 timber supply does not satisfy the de- 

 mands of economic forestry. The util- 



ity value of wood must also be main- 

 tained and increased. From this stand- 

 point the actual and potential value of 

 these lands as a source of wealth and 

 employment must be gaged in a large 

 measure by the utility value of this prin- 

 cipal product. The better adaptation 

 of wood to modern consumption re- 

 quirements is a matter of direct concern 

 to consumers, whose proper housing and 

 standards of living are bound up with 

 the satisfactory use of wood products; 

 to workmen, who need the hundreds of 

 millions of dollars in wages furnished by 

 employment in the woods, the sawmilM 

 the pulp mills, and broadly diversified 

 fields of wood construction and manu- 

 facture; to farmers and other timber- 

 land owners, large and small, seeking 

 market outlets for materials from their 



