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» VIRGIN SAW TIMBER 
Loy 1,764 BILLION 
1% 
A 3 BOARD FEET SECOND-GROWTH SAW TIMBER 
as 497 BILLION BOARD FEET 
CUT-OVER 
36/,000,000 
ACRES 
/0/,000,000 
ACRES 
F-396960 
WE HAVE left less than one-fourth of the 
original stand of virgin timber of the kind 
that was here when the country was settled. 
But it constitutes three-fourths of our saw 
timber. When it is cut, we must rely en- 
tirely upon second-growth forests, which 
have been so neglected and mismanaged 
that despite their large area they contain 
only a small portion (less than 25 percent) 
of our available saw timber. 
£15 
