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acres of timber land ; Pennsylvania has preserves of more than 

 1,250,000 acres, and many other states have followed their example. 

 Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan have large areas set aside. 

 The total area for all states in 1925 was more than 10,000,000 

 acres. 



Forest Wastes. Our forests are being cut down at the rate of 

 about 10,000,000 acres a year. But man loses much of this wood 

 by wasteful methods of lumbering. Hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars' worth of lumber is left to rot annually because the lumber- 

 men do not cut the trees close enough to the ground, or because 

 through careless felling of trees many smaller trees are injured. 

 This is particularly true among the large trees in our western 



A. Gaskill- 

 A cigarette may have caused this destruction. 



U.S. Forest Service 



forests. There has been great waste also in the lumber mills. 

 In fact, man wastes lumber in every step from the forest to the 

 finished product, and is just beginning to devise methods of pre- 

 venting these wastes. 

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