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Conservation as Practised: A Speci?c Answer to a Speci?c Attack; With a Few Words on the Alleged Western Discontent, With Conservation
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Ultimately the National Forests will be self-supporting. But in the meantime there is little more reason in complaining that they cost more than they bring in than there would be in complaining that the premiums paid for fire insurance, or the cost of a city fire department, failed to bring in an annual cash return. Mr. Thomas says the annual cut from the National Forests is but 8% per cent. Of the annual crop. The whole annual crop or growth is not, and cannot be, harvested at present on the National Forests, and the reason is not far to seek. When the National Forests were created the best and most accessible of the timber had already been appropriated. The Government took what was left. Three fourths of the National Forest timber is even yet inaccessible by reason of the lack of transportation. Where it is accessible and salable, the annual crop is being har vested. Much of the more remote timber could not yet be cut even if it were given away.
Ultimately the National Forests will be self-supporting. But in the meantime there is little more reason in complaining that they cost more than they bring in than there would be in complaining that the premiums paid for fire insurance, or the cost of a city fire department, failed to bring in an annual cash return. Mr. Thomas says the annual cut from the National Forests is but 8% per cent. Of the annual crop. The whole annual crop or growth is not, and cannot be, harvested at present on the National Forests, and the reason is not far to seek. When the National Forests were created the best and most accessible of the timber had already been appropriated. The Government took what was left. Three fourths of the National Forest timber is even yet inaccessible by reason of the lack of transportation. Where it is accessible and salable, the annual crop is being har vested. Much of the more remote timber could not yet be cut even if it were given away.
21 pages, Paperback
Published August 24, 2018
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