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Show Timber From the Tropics? It Is recognized, says the American Tree association, that the forest resources re-sources of tropical America may be a very important factor In our own domestic timber problem. Some believe be-lieve that those forests will be called upon to bridge the hiatus that Is bound to exl?t between the exhaustion of our wild timber crop, and the harvest har-vest time of our man-managed forests. for-ests. Others believe that they will form n permanent source of timber to replace some of our own special purpose hardwoods. All are agreed that, in nny case, we cannot fully and completely outline out-line our own forestry problem without with-out taking Into consideration nil the factors that may Influence the outcome. |