Most of our privately owned forests have been temporarily ruined by practices of this sort.

The aim of the ordinary lumberman is to fell the trees and reduce them to lumber with the least labor possible.
He does not exercise special care as to how the tree is cut down.
He pays little attention to the protection of young trees and new growth.

He cuts the tree to fall in the direction that best serves his purpose, no matter whether this means that the forest giant will crush and seriously cripple many young trees.

He wastes large parts of the trunk in cutting.

He leaves the tops and chips and branches scattered over the ground to dry out.