Excerpt from Town Forests, Their Recreational and Economic Value and How to Establish and Maintain ThemThe last century has seen a forest resource of some Six thousand billion board feet of timber cut to one, third that amount. The same century has Seen our population mount eleven/fold, creating increasing demands for forest products. Today we are cutting what remains of our forests four and one/half times as fast as they are growing. The centers of production have been swept to the far northwest and to the south. To meet the economic, industrial and social demands of the great industrial and thickly inhabited sections of our country we must transport timber, at heavy toll in freights, thousands of miles. We need more forests in more places.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.