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Show i FIGHT FIKF I'l.ANT TREES ! "America must practice forestry on her privafoly owned timber land to provide a future supply of saw material for the lumber Industry and prevent a wood famine." said District Forester George H. Cecil at Portland. Oregon. Tho timber of the United States is being cut at the rate of 40,000-000,000 40,000-000,000 board feet a year without making any provision for another crop of trees when the presentstand largely restricted to mature timber. Fires are allowed to sweep over the logged-olT areas. destroying the young tree growth with which nature na-ture would reforest the land." Fire fighting will save hundreds of millions of feet of timber which will take cennturies to grow. . ! |