The Preservation of Forests. (Being Appendix No. 1, presented with the Report of the Committee on the Preservation of Timber.)

Abstract

At the Washington meeting of the Society, the writer bad the task assigned him of preparing an appendix to the report on Preservation of Timber, in which should be presented, in brief form, such facts as are obtainable respecting the necessity for exercising economy in the use of forest products, because of the very rapid extinction of forests over considerable areas of our country, and the apparent possibility of what might be called a wood famine. Important as the subject is, the information to be had is on many points exceedingly vague and unsatisfactory, and of so general a character as to afford but little basis for exact estimates.