| Show NE POLICY IS URGED I TO SAVE U. U S. S I TREES Pack Says Waste Lands Should Be Made Forests EW NEW LONDON roNDON N. N H. H Aug 23 Warn i-Warn- Warn Warning In ing th the business Interests particularly the thC now newspaper pa er publishers that there must be bo action at once for or better fire tire protect protection tion tion a year ear for guarding for for- t cats against the a n. year car fire Clra I loss loss Charles Charles Lathrop Pack president of or orI I the American Forestry association spoke 1 here hero today at a conference of or foresters I timberland owners paper pulp men and andI lumbermen Pack Pock also urged a n. I a year appropriation for the tho acquisition of or r forest land b by the government for the thC I purpose of or growing timber limber to replace our rapidly disappearing supplies TO PROTECT FORESTS The conference Is being conducted b by bytho the tho Society for the Protection of or Ne New r Forests orests Some of or tho the speakers Ion on the day pro program are George W. W Sisson Sis Sis- son lion Jr president o of the American Pil Pulp I and Paper association R. R S. S I secretary of or the American Newsprint servIce Colonel Henry S. S S S. Graves former Conner chief forester of or the U. U S Elwood Wilson VII Wil son forester of or tho Paper company of or Grand Mere Quebec l Forests arc are not only being wiped out b by destructive conflagrations as well as b by numerous small fires tires but these tires fires I also prevent pre tho the natural reforestation o of or r hundreds of or thousands of or acres of or cut- cut over lands Pack Our direct loss 1051 lossin lossin in timber b by these fires Ires is ac a a. year c r. r Altogether there are arc acres of or state and privately owned forest land In the he protection of ot which tho the government government gov gay should cooperate At present half of this area Is wholly unprotected and protection for the thC other half hair Is en entirely entirely en- en Inadequate If It these lands are arc tobe to tobe tobe be kept productive there thero must be tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre expansion In our present fire protection activities by the federal government government gov gov- the states stales and private owners Legislation authorizing ln the government to spend in tn cooperation with the states slates Is Immediately essential MUCH WASTE LAND Close estimates show acres of or waste waslo forest land on which there IB is no noI growth of any value This area arel greater than tho the combined forest area of or Ger Ger- I many Denmark Holland Belgium Bellum France Switzerland Spain and Portugal should be made un under er proper management management manage manage- ment to lo produce forests Our standing timber r is III now being cut or destroyed by bv fire disease and insects four times as fast fut as aa new timber is lt being grown In tho case caso of oC saw timber alone the destruction Is III more than five times tho the growth of oC such material What this moans to the nation In tn tho the WR way of ot higher prices of forest foret products is apparent FIRE PROTECTION Adequate fire protection of ou our v forests forests for for- ests will wili solve 75 per cent cont of ot the difficulties difficulties dim dim- cui ties now confronting us in attempting to keep our forest lands productive At present about one fifth of or th the forest forest for for- est cat land of tho the country Is publicly owned mainly by tho the federal government This ownership should be bo Increased to one halt of tho lite timber growing land of ot tho the United States well distributed throughout the I principal forest regions |
