Forestry and community development . hen abandoned either because the land was inherentlyunsuitable for permanent farming or because more valuable landselsewhere became available for settlement. As a general rule, thereis more clanger that attempts will be made to cultivate land bettersuited for timber crops than that really good agricultural land willbe retained in forest. LOCAL SHORTAGES OF TIMBER. Thanks to the successive opening up of fresh sources of supplyas the lumber industry has moved south and west, the United Stateshas not yet experienced a general shortage of timber. Sufficientwood
Forestry and community development . hen abandoned either because the land was inherentlyunsuitable for permanent farming or because more valuable landselsewhere became available for settlement. As a general rule, thereis more clanger that attempts will be made to cultivate land bettersuited for timber crops than that really good agricultural land willbe retained in forest. LOCAL SHORTAGES OF TIMBER. Thanks to the successive opening up of fresh sources of supplyas the lumber industry has moved south and west, the United Stateshas not yet experienced a general shortage of timber. Sufficientwood still is cut each year to meet the needs of the country. Thisis being done, however, at the expense of the forest capital, and ispossible only because the country has been so fortunate as to haveavailable for immediate use the accumulation of many centuries offorest growth. The best available estimates indicate that for manyyears the annual cut of wood products of all kinds has greatly Bui. 638, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate F-23139A A Virgin Forest of Hemlock and White Pine in Western of this kind are now rare and in their place are denuded, fire-swept areas. Bui. 638, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II.
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