HOW UNITED STATES CAN MEET PULP-WOOD REQUIREMENTS. 3 
Canada and from a number of north-European countries have continued to 
expand. This expansion has been necessary to meet American requirements for 
paper. Our paper requirements have in fact grown faster than, under existing 
conditions, pulp wood could be obtained from our forests or paper and pulp 
could be produced in our mills. Our pulp and paper imports now constitute an 
equivalent of 42 per cent of the wood utilized in our total paper consumption, or 
nearly four times the imports of pulp wood alone. Even without the pulp wood 
they swell our imports to a greater proportional volume than in the case of any 
other major forest product. The exceedingly rapid growth and present volume 
of pulp and paper imports, in themselves alone, more than justify an inquiry 
into the present situation and the future outlook. 
A satisfactory investigation can not therefore be confined exclusively to pulp- 
wood resources or to pulp-wood imports, and any emergency which might grow 
out of their reduction, or to paper and pulp imports. Much larger questions of 
trade and public policy are involved than how, if necessary, to meet a reduction 
of pulp-wood imports or how to keep present capital investments profitable 
through the discovery of domestic pulp-wood supplies. It is necessary to deal 
with the entire situation, with imports of paper and pulp as well as of pulp wood, 
and with the underlying forces which have brought about these imports. It is 
most necessary of all to consider just what are our present and possible future 
pulp-wood resources. 
The scope of this investigation has therefore been planned to include: 
(i) Present American pulp-wood, wood-pulp, and paper requirements, and the 
character and extent of our imports from Canada and other countries. 
(2) Probable future paper and pulp-wood requirements. 
(3) Whether we should attempt to become entirely self-supporting in the part 
of our paper requirements derived from wood. 
(4) Existing timber resources and how we can meet from them our present 
raw-material requirements for the paper industry. 
(5) How we can grow on our own forest lands pulp wood of satisfactory species 
in sufficient quantities to meet our future requirements. 
(6) Supplementary measures essential to the solution of both present and 
future problems. 
Neither time nor funds have permitted the collection of new field data. It 
has accordingly been possible only to compile, analyze, and interpret with especial 
reference to the purpose of this investigation the data already available. 
WHY WE SHOULD SEEK INDEPENDENCE IN PULP-WOOD 
SUPPLIES. 
The question naturally arises whether we should try to meet all of our future 
paper requirements from domestic sources. Our economic relations with Canada 
are close and it is to the mutual advantage of both countries that they should 
so continue. Canada has a large forest area and much more timber of pulp 
species in her eastern Provinces than has the United States in the corresponding 
region. Why should not the United States acquiesce in a permanent dependence 
on Canada for pulp and paper to supply our densely populated Eastern States 
now that we have ceased to manufacture sufficient quantities from domestic 
timber? Why should we not also continue to secure the present or even larger 
amounts of pulp and paper from north-European countries? 
The question turns on the economic advantages or disadvantages to the 
United States of the alternative courses. There are outstanding reasons for 
creating a permanent domestic pulp and paper industry which can meet our 
entire needs, founded on home-grown timber. As will be shown in a subsequent 
