100 Years of Federal Forestry Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402

Our forests compose one of the Earth's greatest reservoirs of renewable natural resources. They can provide us with essential products indefinitely if managed properly, and at the same time remain a home for wildlife and a vital source of water supplies.

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Too often and in too many places, man has not taken good care of the forests. He has cut them wastefully with little thought to the values of nature or his own future needs. Where he has failed to safeguard and renew the forests, he as suffered. (F—522141)

Where people cared for the forests—used them wisely and protected, developed, and replenished them in good time—the forests, the land, and the people alike have prospered. (F—507511)