FORESTRY AND PERMANENT PROSPERITY 



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Where selective logging is being 

 A Forest Service timber sale in practiced by a Lake State 

 California on which a fine stand of trees lumbering company, 

 has been left for a second crop. 



In one of our purchased eastern nahonal forests, where tree growth furnishes watershed 

 protection and helps to prevent erosion of the soil from mountain sides and stream banks. 



Since 1911 about 17,000,000 acres of forest land have been approved 

 for purchase for national- forest purposes. 



