WOOD FOR THE NATION Westward the course of forest discovery and depletion has taken its way in the United States.

The pine and hardwood forests of the Atlantic and New England States first fell before the bite of the woodman's ax and the sweep of his saw.

Wasteful lumbering finally sapped the resources of these productive timberlands.
Shift was then made farther westward to the Lake States.

Their vast stretches of white pine and native hardwoods were cut to a skeleton of their original size.

The lumbering operations then spread to the southern pine belt.