Irrigated agriculture will suffer most of all, for the destruction of the forests means the loss of the waters as surely as night follows day.

With the rise in the cost of producing food, the cost of food itself will rise.

Commerce in general will necessarily be affected by the difficulties of the primary industries upon which it depends.

In a word, when the forests fail, the daily life of the average citizen will inevitably feel the pinch on every side.

And the forests have already begun to fail, as the direct result of the suicidal policy of forest destruction which the people of the United States have allowed themselves to pursue.
It is true that about twenty per cent, of the less valuable timber land in the United States remains in the possession of the people in the National Forests, and that it is being cared for and conserved to supply the needs of the present and to mitigate the suffering of the near future.