Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-11 | Page 6 | A Lagging Program

El A Lagging Program 1 11 I THE HE average citizen probably bly takes it for i 1 granted that the federal government with w its string of Rational forests is doing all that need be dor dof in the direction of 10 0 I tion However Charles Lathrop p Pack the v known well known president of the American Tree association declares in the Review of R Reviews views that insufficient appropriations and decentralized organization arc keeping the program from being put forward at anywhere near the proper pace At our present snails snail's pace of he s says ys it will take over 1000 years to re reforest reforest re- re forest the areas that we devastated in less than a century We Ve are arC witnessing today the pr progressive pauperization of townships township anc and counties that thrived so long tong as timber lasted and which are arc now slowly dying and literally going into bankruptcy Mr Pack knows the situation probably as well as any man in the country His words are not at all comforting Apparently we need an entirely new reforestation program program pro pro- gram if our forest resources are to endure