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indiscriminate cutting of the "best, inferior trees are given the ad- 

 vantage. They take that aavantage, and reproduce their kind to the 

 exclusion of the better species. 



For example, in our western forests, the inferior white firs have 

 crowded in on valuable pine and Douglas fir in many sections. In the 

 Rocky Mountains, great areas of forest lands have been burned over and 

 pines and spruces destroyed. The land has grown up to aspon, and paper 

 birch, and mountain mahogany, none of which produce merchantalle tinbcr. 



Tliroughout the Lake States region, there arc large areas which 

 once bore valuable stands of white and Norway pine, but have now been 

 tals{en over by popple and jack pine. 



In northern New England, where rod spruce is the most valuable 

 species, it has to fight inferior hardwood species which tend to take 

 pps^ssion of the laoid. 



In the central Appalachian hardwood belt, on the other hand, the 

 scrub oak, which is an inferior species, tends to crowd out tulip, and 

 white oak, which are valuable species. 



The problem of the foresters in all our forests is to give pref- 

 erence to better species, and to protect the most valuable trees so as 

 to bring about the establishment of an ultimate stand of the best trees 

 at the earliest date. 



One way of doing that is to insist upon the removal of all inferior 

 species and to leave only seed trees of the most valuable species. On 

 cut-over or burned-over land, the foresters also resort to replanting with 

 the kind of trees they want to grow, ^iien the balance of Nature which 

 maintains the forest in its best crop, is upset by fire or flood or foolish 

 cutting, Mr. ^thie points out, Natures slow method of crop rotation may 

 mean heavy timber losses for many generations of timber ilfeers. 



AN!JOUNCEI.IENT : Every other Friday Station presents these results of 



visits with Uncle Sara's Naturalists, in the United States Department of 

 Ae'riculture, Rpmeraber the day and hour when our Wilds Man will bring back 

 the game. 



