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Show Forests Are More Than Trees America still has about 73 percent as much forestland as existed here when Columbus landed. The total area is about million acres. Of that total, about 218 million acres 738 a third is set in parks, wilderness areas, watersheds, or is not suitable for growing commercial timber. This third of the American forest equals the size of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and Israel. The remaining 510 million acres of the total forest base is the commercial forest. This is the land that produces for thousands of wood products, that contributes most to the net oxygen gain, and that literally millions of Americans use for aside recreation. Theres a commonly misconception that the mercial forest is owned handful of large timber panies. But thats not true. held com- by a com- The biggest single owner of the commercial forest is government, both state and federal. About 142 million acres of the commercial forestland is 28 percent of publicly held the total. Private individuals, aoout four million persons, own almost 60 percent of the forest, about 303 million cres. The forest products industry comes in a distant third, with about 13 percent of the commercial forest, something like 66 million acres. Yet the land owned by the forest products industry produces about a third of the timber required fe- - wood products because it is intensively managed to increase yield. Industrial forestlands average about 52 cubic feet of new wood growth per acre per .tear. Both industrial and government growth averages far exceed the productivity of land held by individuals, but not managed for timber production. The L'.S. Forest Sendee is fully capable of increasing the The Sf.'t Lake Tribune, Sunday, October 10, 1971 Quality Control Equipment Purchased growth rate on national forests. In fact, much of the research and development work on which modern forestr- The domestic try's investment practices are based was done by the Forest Semce. y- However, Congress has not achieved on industrial lands. For example, oer the last eight years, only 40 percent of the funds requested by the for timber Forest Sen-icgrowing have been approed e by Congress. At the beginning of this decade, more than 5 million acres of fderally owned land weie lying idle, in need of restocking. Another 13 mii'ion awes were in need of work. This is improvement acquired land, or land that has beer, devastated by natural catastophe, such as fire, insect damage or disease. Nearly half or the total area of the 11 Western states (359,197.200 acres) is in federAlaska (not al ownership. included in that total) is 96.9 percent federally owned. 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The first known casualty of environmental control was an English blacksmith who was beheaded in 1307 for burning sea coal. For centuries the air pollutant villains were the wastes from coal burning smoke, soot, fly ash and sulphur oxides. The industrial e revolution added many emissions of varying degrees of nuisance, irritation and damage, such as oil refineries, cement plants, paper mills and central power sta- - tion engines, is still the mam source of air pollutants even products petroleum though and natural gas have superseded coal as the major U.S. energy source. But people cause pollution too, the industrial complexes cannot be held totally to in to the morning until we go bed at night most of the things we do and the things we use cause or have caused air pollution. We get up in the morning and turn on the lights; much of our electricity is generated by burning fuels and burning causes air pollution. We take a hot shower in water heated by burning gas. Our breakfast is cooked on a stove which uses fuel. The food itself gives off particles and gases into the air, as the fan on the kitchen vent will attest. The food may well have come from land which had been cleared by burning. We get into our car and drive to work ; the automobile accounts for over half of our air pollution. And if the things ve use dont contribute directly to air are pollution, the chances good that somewhere in their manufacturing process they ground, polished, sanded, or some other pollutant-emittinprocess. And when we are finished with the project and throw it out. it will probably be burned. Our industries, our automobiles, our agriculture. activities, all share the responsibility for polluting the air we breathe. With increased pollution and & Storo Hours: tlieie becomes a $ 30 A.M.-- 6 F.M. affluent') Daily CLOSED SUNDAYS .$ greater demand for energy and a gi eater consumption. - Enjoy Pure Fresh Drinking Water at Your Own Sink. . . . with a mental quality control equipment lO'-- sharply m 1970, to American Iron and Steel Institute. An .MSI suivev ieveals that U.S. firms producing about 98 peieeut of the nation's iron and steel placed mio opera3166.385.000 a record tion worth of new air and water quali'y control faeilnes during the year. Tins was an increase fiom the $138.034.0tl0 spent for such equipment in 1969. The domestic steel industry's in investment environmental quality central facilities at the end of 1970 was over $1 billion. The industry invested $556. 559. 000 in environmental quality control equipment between the beginning of and the end of 1970 alone. Although the steel industry's profit: :n 1970 were the lowest they have been since the I orties, domestic steelmakers have authorized an for additional $354,b38,000 environmental protection facilities slated to go into opera e i6 in 19)1 and later veals. Industry experts estimate the annual cu-- t of maintaining and operating pollution control equipment at roughly 10 percent of the original concost. Tins means struction that as of the end of 1970, do steelmakers were tion niestic more than spending to $100,000,000 a year just existing air and water purification facilities going. Of the $166.3S5,(IOO worth of new pollution fielding units placed on streams last year, in $97,263. W0 was invested water cleansing equipment. Tins was a jump of $26,280,000 over the $70,983,000 worth of such equipment which began operation in 1969. Tne new air quality control facilities which began operation in 1970 were valued at -- more than $69,122.01)0 $12,000,000 over the value of .similar futilities installed in the previous year. During the past 20 years, however, total steel industry c n v i ronmema! equipment liar been very investment nearly split even between air water pollution control. purification Of the more than one billion $161,260,000 dollars spent for these water pollution control and pur- the period, during $512,810,000 went into water and clean-ufacilities, for air quality $492,182,000 equipment. Of the $354,638,000 allocated for future polin' , fighting, $193,378,000 will go toward air poses p facilities, and toward additional equip- ment. 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