They develop into a fire trap.
As generally followed, the ordinary method of lumbering is destructive of the forests.

It ravages the future production of the timberlands.

It pays no heed to the young growth of the forest.

It does not provide for the proper growth and development of the future forest.

Our vast stretches of desolate and deserted cut-over lands are silent witnesses to the ruin which has been worked by the practice of destructive lumbering.