If our forests are to be saved for the future we must begin conservation at once.  To a small degree, luck plays a part in maintaining the size of the forest.  Some woodlands in the South Atlantic States are now producing their third cut of saw logs.  Despite forest fires and other destructive agencies, these forests have continued to produce.  Some of the northern timberlands have grown crops of saw timber and wood pulp for from one hundred fifty to two hundred fifty years.  Expert foresters report that private owners are each year increasing their plantings on denuded woodlands.  New England landowners are planting between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 young forest trees a year.  The Middle Atlantic and Central States are doing about as well.  To save our forests, planting of this sort must be universal.  It takes from fifty to one hundred years to grow a crop of merchantable timber.  What the United States needs is a national forestry policy which will induce every landowner to plant and grow more trees on land that is not useful for farm crops.  Our forestry problem is to put to work millions of acres of idle land.  As one eminent forester recently remarked, “If we are to remain a nation of timber users, we must become a nation of wood growers.”

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