Many foreign countries have long practiced forestry and lumbering, yet their lumbermen cannot compete with the Americans when it comes to a matter of ingenuity in the woods.

American woods and methods of logging are peculiar.

They would no more fit under European forest conditions than would foreign systems be suitable in this country.

American lumbermen are slowly coming to devise and follow a combination method which includes all the good points of foreign forestry revised to apply to our conditions.
We can keep our remaining forests alive and piece out their production over a long period if we practice conservation methods generally throughout the country.

Our remaining forests can be lumbered according to the rules of practical forestry without great expense to the owners.