Most of the kinds of export timber that Europe wants we need right at home.

We have only about 258,000,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine left, yet this material composes one-half of our annual shipments abroad.
We are cutting this material at the rate of 16,000,000,000 board feet a year.

Some authorities believe that our reserves will last only sixteen years unless measures to protect them are put into effect at once.

At the present rate of cutting long-leaf pine trees, our outputs of naval stores including turpentine and rosin are dwindling.

We cannot afford to increase our export of southern yellow pine unless reforestation is started on all land suitable for that purpose.