The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-05-10
Must Save
Our Woods
Lumber Resources Must be Con-
served by Systematic Culture.

Every person in the United
States is using over six times a.
much wood as he would u1e if he
were in Europe. Tie county as
whole consumes every year between
three and four times more wooo
than all the forests in the United
States can grow in the meantime.
The average acre of forest lays up
store of only 10 cubic feet annual
ly, whereas it ought to be laying
up at least 80 cubic feet in order to
furnish tie products taken out OF
it. Si,ce 1880 more than 1000,
600, 900, 900 feet of timber have
been cut for lumber alone, lnclud
ny $4,000, 600, 900 feet of confer
Gus timber in excess of the total
coniferous stumpage estimate of
the Census in 1880.
The rate at which forest products
in the Uuited States have been and
are being consumed is far too law
ish, and that only one result can
follow unless steps are promptly
taken to prevent waste III use and
to increase the growth rate Of every
acre of forest in the United States
This result would be a timber
famine. This country is today IN
the same position with regard to
forest resources as was Germany
$50 years ago. During this period
of 80 years such German States as
Saxony aud Prussia, particularly
the latter. have applied a policy Of
government control and regulation
which has immensely increased the
productivity OF their foress. The
same policy will achieve even bet
ter results in the United States, be
cause we have the advan age of all
the lessons which Europe has
learned and paid for in the course
of century of Theory and practice.
Lest it might be assumed that
the rapid and gaining depletion of
American forest resources is suf-
ficiently accounted for by the in
crease in population, it is pointed
out in the circular that the increa e
in population since 1880 is barely
more than half the inc. ease in
the lumber cut in the same period.
Two areas supplying timber have
already reacht and past their max
imum production-the Northeast
ern states in 1870 and the Lake
States in 1890. Today the South
ern states, which cut yellow pine
amounting to one third the total
annual lumber cut of the country,
are undoubtedly near their maxi
mum. The Pacific states will soon
take the ascendarcy. The State of
Washington wi hin a few years has
come to the front and now ranks
first of all Individual sta es in vol.
Tune Ct out.
At present but one-ffth of the
total forest area of he United
States is embraced in Natl onal
Fores's. The remaining four
fifths have already past or are most
likely to pass into. private hands.
The average age of the trees felled
for lumber this year is rot less than
$50 years In other words, if he is
to secure a second crop of trees the
same size, the lumbermAn or private
forest owner must wait, say, at
least one hunored years for the
second crop to grow AS a rule,
such longtime investments as this
wai.ing would involve do rot COM
mend themselves to business men
who are accustomed to quick ,e-
turns But the States and the
Nation en- look much farther
ahead. The larger, then, the area
OF National and State control over
woodlands, the greater is the likel;.
hood that the forests of the country
Will be kept perman'iy productive
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