Timber 
cut in 
North Carola .. 
Americans use wood liberally, perhaps 
extravagantly by comparison with other 
nations. A typical American uses twice 
as much lumber as a Russian, four times 
as much as an Englishman, and six times 
as much as a Frenchman. Our use of 
paper, too, far exceeds that of any other 
nation. 
CUBIC FEET 
526 MILLION 
CUBIC FEET 
Providing the typical American with the 
wood products he is accustomed to using 
each year, in 1955 required cutting about 
70 cubic feet of timber from the Nation’s 
forests. ‘his would make a block of solid 
wood 3 feet square and nearly 8 feet high. 
