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Show HOW ABOUT OUR OWN FORESTS? The American Tree Association has shipped 1 1 00 pounds of Douglas fir seed to France to help teforest the battle area where the American doughboys fought. The seed was collected on the Pacific coast. As a reminder to France of America's friendship, both in war and peace, this act will have everlasting significance. It brings forcibly to mind, however, the thousands of acres that are annually destroyed in this nation by forest fires and the need for adopting measures which will protect burned-over and logged-off areas so that our native American trees will reforest our hills in due time. Timber is one of our great natural assets. While cutting what nature has given us, we should provide so that our future supply may ' be growing. |