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Show constructive national iie-forestration iie-forestration c A national rctorestratlon policy, backed by the press and all our educational edu-cational machinery, has becomo an Indispensable necessity. Our original forests cooverlng 822 million acres containing 5,200 billion board feet ot lumber are over two-thirds two-thirds culled, cut over or burned. Wo have 137 million acres lrgln forest, 112 million aero second growth, 133 million acres partially stocked and 81 million acres forest lands of all sorts. I Wo nre cutting CG billion board ftet annually. We are taking 26 billion cubic feet out ot our forest nnnually and restoring only six billion bil-lion feet nnnually. i Our annual wood bill Is 40 billion' bil-lion' feet of lumber, 87 million feet uowed railroad ties, 7 million cords paper wood pulp. 1 Thero must bo reforestation on a i national scale to supply tho raw material ma-terial of lumber production and paper pa-per manufacture unless we are' to bo-come bo-come foreatlcsa. Stnto and foreBt forestry departments, depart-ments, tho sawmill and lumber manufacturing man-ufacturing IntorcstB and prlvato owners own-ers of forests and logged off lands mut unite to savo tho day. |