Show GREAT FORESTS BEING DESTROYED BY WASTE A very ry fen ew years ao ago forest con wag a little more than a phrase today It Is a vital Ital In Ia oUr national says SaM Cleveland ir 11 In a circular on the st status of forestry In this thiM coun country try which has just been Issued b by the United States forest service In con connection with the general plan pian to lo con conserVo serVo sero nil all natural resources It Is the most important and far reaching eco ceo policy ever adopted and pur pursued pursued sued by bv an any nation nallon Th The for forest st js Is one of the chief sup supports ports of tho ho whole material fabric of The means not nol only a supply of wood and the life of nil all the Industries which it but bill also the control of the tho waters for human use uso There Is only barrenness In the th future of the tho nation which has host the Use of wood I and the control of water The sort of use uso that was made of natural resources during the thc pioneer pioneerIng pioneering Ing stage while rIght enough at the time Is l far too wasteful to bo carried on Into the new Industrial era In or ordel order del der to know how to lo use nse n a thing how however ever It Is necessary first to lo find out how much or of It th thore rc is 15 to use and takIng stock of our forest resources has led to startling results it Il has shown that we are do de the forest as we USe it that we are arc taking from It oer every year er erthree three and a half times limes as much wood as Is added by the new growth It has hns shown less than one thIrd of the growing trees foiled felled b by the lumberman Is ever eer used at all so that thal of all the limber cut CIt Is simply de dc destroyed It has shown that of all the forests are swept b by fires overy ear and that on the aver average average age since forest fires have yearly cost In timber limber and anh fifty lives lies It has hns shown that more than 99 per cent of the forests In private comprIse of all the tue forest land and or of orall all the wood is thus devastated by de destructive USe and the scourge o of uti un unchecked checked fires while than I 1 per percent centis cent is properly handled for Cor successive crops or effectively protected from fire Time The forest as a resource is rap Idly being obliterated But the inventory of the forests has I hart had yet ct other othor ugly facts to reveal roveal WIth the disappearance auth allon at ion of the forests I ho na iia I lion tion Is losIng control of tIme the streams whIch are arc useful in our civilization In ways and degrees unparalleled hr by an another any other resource Pure water for domes domestic tic purposes is 15 of course coure indispensable able usable water vater at the right sea seasons sons Eons I is the sole reliance or of the tho great by which the arid lands aro I vivified 1 ell hy h cheap water waler transportation Is a matter of dollars anal cents to every citizen trustworthy power streams are arc the key to the age of oC electricity at al the tho gates gales or of which modern industry Is standing Yet Yel the guardian of UH the waters Is steadily I compelled to retreat before tho ax and fire In wm waste te alone we reject more than I of the lumber that thal might be taken from the tho trees At I least half Of this waste Is unnecessary In time the first place Wo we waste the forest f rest f by refusing to take tIo advantage or of Its m full CulI capacIty for or growth Protected and properly managed our forests II will produce far more wood than they do at present But Dul while It il Is waste ful to cripple the forest by br 1 a violent I lumbering which destro destroys s young the promise of the future for Cor CorI Is doubly wasteful to lock lIP imp I tho th forest and let the riPe timber die and deca decay for In the former cas case the tho thoI forest nt at least contributes a temporary I supply of wood whereas In the latter laller case It c no wood at al alL alLI I Il Is not use which destroys the forests but waste Not ol use us as such I but destructive use combined with In inexcusable excusable neglect Is i causing the for forests forests ests to under our progressIve demands upon them Th t therefore Is not to be solved by Ils dis I use but by wise use and protection I I These together will so stimulate for forest or est cst growth that the wood may I be harvested without depicting the theon stock on band and will vill keep keell intact the cover coer nt at the stream sources |