United States Department of Agriculture, 



BUREAU OF FORESTRY— CIRCULAR No. 25. 



GIFFORD PINCHOT, Forester. 



II. S. Departmext of Ageiculture, 



Bureau of Forestry, 

 WasJiington, D. C, June 11, 1903. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith three papers on forestry, which are 

 especially in tended for lumbermen, and to recommend their publication as Circular 

 No. 25 of the Bureau of Forestry. 

 Respectfully, 



GiFFORD PiNCHOT, Forestev. 

 Hon, James Wilsox, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



FORESTRY AXD THE LUxUBER SUPPLY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This circular is addressed particularly to lumbermen. 



In the three papers printed below the President of the United 

 States, the secretary of a great lumber company, and the chief of the 

 Bureau of Forestry show that forestry is necessary for the perpetua- 

 tion of the lumber industry in this country. The statement is not 

 new, but never before has it been given such authority, nor has the 

 urgent need of forestry on lumber tracts been so emphatically set 

 forth. Three men in positions that compel them to regard such a 

 question from different view points — the President regarding it as a 

 National problem, Mr. McCormick from the standpoint of a lumber- 

 man, Mr. Pinchot from that of a forester — have reached practically 

 the same conclusion. President Roosevelt declares that forestrj^ is 

 "in many ways the most vital internal problem in the United States,-' 

 and that "the very existence of lumbering depends upon the success 

 of our work as a nation in putting practical forestry into effective 

 operation." Mr. McCormick calls attention to the critical condition 

 of the lumber industry, recommends the practice of conservative 

 lumbering wherever it pa^^s, and calls the working plans for timber 

 tracts prepared by the Bureau of Foresty "the best business policy 



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