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Show Vanishing America Since 1900, the Indian population of the United States has increased from 237,000 to 377,000. Authoritiei ay that America's forests, also popularly pop-ularly considered to be vanishing, would grow more wood annually than we cut If forest management la correctly applied and our forest are protected against fire. So per-istent per-istent Is nature's' urge to grow trees that seed-trees left in modern logging operations soon spread a carpet of new" growth over toresl land to produce a new stand ot timber. Fires are the greatest destroyers de-stroyers of these young trees which may be the forests of tomorrow. |