viii “as FOREWORD 
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While fortunately we still have large areas of timber of mer- 
chantable sizes, and thousands of acres of cut-over lands on which 
the young trees, with no other care than fire protection, are mak- 
ing marvelous growth, yet it would seem more logical and better 
business for us now to begin to consider how we may improve on 
present methods, rather than to await further depletion or delay 
reconstructive measures until our workers and our mills begin to 
A Mammoth Tier of Hardwood in Bingham, Maine. 
Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
feel the pinch of 
an actual timber 
famine. 
I am not in- 
clined to take up 
much of the 
readers’ time 
with criticism 
or fault finding 
as regards eith- 
er past or pres- 
ent measures 
and practices of 
timberland own- 
ers in our State. 
That we have 
wasted our for- 
ests is a matter 
of common 
knowledge. But 
in considering 
our forest prob- 
lems we may 
well adopt the 
philosophy . of 
Phillips Brooks, 
that the _ best 
way to get rid 
of a past is by 
building a_ fu- 
ture out of it. 
With adequate 
measures of fire 
protection for 
