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merchantable portion of the tree, the In addition to this drain of 22.4 
stump, and the top, all with bark, but billion cubic feet, there is a waste in 
excluding limbs and branches. the forest itself, from fire, decay, in- 
The total remaining stand of tim- sect attack, and windfall, of about 2.4 
ber is, according to this assumption, billion cubic feet. (As to fire, this 
estimated as follows: figure does not include the wastage of 
Billion reproduction, which can not be meas- 
cu. ft. ured in cubic feet.) 
Saw timber. oro 0 It is obvious that if the present rate 
Cordwool tomar 1 of drain were to continue unrelieved, 
otal ner 74a and If: thete were no growth incre- 
Fig. 8.—Cutting this log into stovewood at a lumber camp typifies 
the low value placed on logs in forests far from consuming 
centers and the difficulty of conserving wood for its highest use 
TIMBER SHORTAGE WILL BECOME GEN- ment, the Nation's entire stand of tim- 
ERAL IN A FEW YEARS ber would be wiped out in a compara- 
The present rate of cutting from tively few years—the saw timber in 
our forests is about as follows: about 37% years, and the cordwood 
Billion in about 22 years. 
oa it The rate of drain is not likely to 
per annum decrease; in fact, economic studies 
oy Hmherd oi tC mee 13 point to the conclusion that, although 
ordwood ~~ —-——oceommm————= 10.8 yp per capita consumption of wood is 
PO ee mime: Ba Qoclining, cour wood requirements will 
1g. 9.—At the same time the big log shown in the upper photo- 
graph was being fed into the cookhouse range, the woods all about 
the camp were filled with a tangle of broken spruce and hemlock, 
part of the 2.3 billion cubic feet of wood wasted yearly in logging