NEW FOREST FRONTIERS
for: Jobs, Permanent Communities, A Stronger Nation
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THE UNITED STATES now uses half the lumber, more than half the paper,
and two-fifths of the wood in all forms consumed in the world. F-383248
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MANUFACTURE of useful products from this type of raw material provides
employment for millions of men and makes large pay rolls. F-373914
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BUT less than one-fourth of the original saw timber
stand remains. More than one-third of this is in western Oregon and
Washington, while the East with three-fourths of the land and
four-fifths of the people has less than one-third of the timber. F-394646
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THREE-FOURTHS of our commercial forest
land is privately owned. It produces 95 percent of our timber cut, and
constitutes nine-tenths of our timber-growing capacity. Far too little
of this is under any form of management. F-396959
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AS A result of destructive cutting and fire, between 75 and
80 million acres of timber-growing land are idle. F-391257
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WE HAVE left less than one-fourth of the
original stand of virgin timber of the kind that was here when the
country was settled. But it constitutes three-fourths of our saw timber.
When it is cut, we must rely entirely upon second-growth forests, which
have been so neglected and mismanaged that despite their large area they
contain only a small portion (less than 25 percent) of our available saw
timber. F-396960
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VIRGIN FORESTS are steadily being reduced, and second-growth forests are
being cut and burned about as fast as they grow. F-396953
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TO MEET the real requirements of our people for forest products,
with a margin for export and safety, growth should be nearly doubled. F-390801
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