Saving the Vanishing Forests of the World
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In his series on world forests, MacDougall focused on some very real forestry problems that exist around the globe. With respect to U.S. forests, however, it was only in the last installment that he gave some acknowledgment to the successes in management of the resources in our nation.
This nation’s forests remain heavily timbered and are gaining rather than losing wood volume each year. The U.S. forest resource is growing 28% faster than it is being harvested for use or lost to fire, insects and disease. Where the U.S. Department of Agriculture inventoried 517 billion cubic feet of wood in 1952, its latest survey shows 711 billion cubic fee now. One reason for this is that we are currently planting some 1.8 billion seedling trees in this nation’s woodlands every year--nearly eight trees annually for each person in this country.
HAROLD R. WALT
Chairman,
State Board of Forestry
Woodside
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