It is a long and costly haul from these Pacific Coast forests to the eastern markets.
Less than one-fifth of our remaining timber is hardwood.
56,000,000,000 board feet of material of saw timber size are used or destroyed in the United States each year.

Altogether, we use more than 26,000,000,000 cubic feet of timber of all classes annually.

Our forests are making annual growth at the rate of less than one-fourth of this total consumption.

We are rapidly cutting away the last of our virgin forests.

We also are cutting small-sized and thrifty trees much more rapidly than we can replace them.
[Illustration: A FOREST CROP ON ITS WAY TO THE MARKET] The United States is short on timber today because our fathers and forefathers abused our forests.