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AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 



FIG. 30. A TRAP FOR FIRE 



Clean out (load brush and dead trees and put into a condition to withstand fire 



water to the dry plains of [daho; forests in Colorado equalize the water 

 supph in Kansas; the .success of th< great irrigation project in Nevada 

 depends on the extent and condition of forests in California. Changes that 

 may come in the near future, wholly to transform the situation, to encourage 

 tree planting and to protect our forests, concern technical points such as 

 taxation of forested land and trade relations with foreign countries. 



A question conies from foresl owners, "Is the fact that a forest is an 

 investment consistent with conservation'.'" In answer, experts hold that 

 there are common-sense forestn methods which, if employed in the manage- 

 ment of any given woodland, will allow a man to cut his timber now, yel 

 save or grow a better crop for a later harvest; that the value of his in- 

 vestment is increased, for it yields almost the usual immediate profit and 

 a greater deferred gain. Thai the deferred profit will be great is due in part 

 of course, to the annually decreasing supply of timber and the increasing 

 demand, the yearly consumption at present being more than three times the 

 yearly forest growth. One lumber company estimates that if, when a long- 

 leaf pine forest is cut, twentj per cent of the stand be left, this will yield 

 math half the original cut in twenty years, -a two per cent investment if 

 there he no increase in value of timber in the twenty years, a ten percent 

 investment with the probable rise in value. Many lumbermen who bought 

 long-leaf forests at fifty cents per thousand feet believe that in twenty years 

 these forests will have a value of ten dollars per thousand at least. Dr. 



C. A. Schenck, former!; forester of the 125,000-acre Biltmore estate in 



