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(4) In variety combined with value our forests are without a 

 parallel in the world. They produce timber adapted to the greatest 

 variety of uses, so that, except to meet shortage, importations of 

 wood are unnecessary. Furthermore, transportation facilities enable 

 us to make every forest region available. Thus, by specializing our 

 forest management, each kind of forest may be made to yield the 

 kind of material for which it is best adapted, and the wastes due 

 to compulsory use of local supplies may be practically eliminated. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, Secretary. 



Washington, D, C, December ^^, 1907. 



[Cir. 140] ' . 



