At one time they were the richest forests in the world.

Today there are millions of acres which contain neither timber nor young growth.

Considerable can be restored if the essential measures are started on a national scale.

Such measures would insure an adequate lumber supply for all time to come.
Rules and regulations concerning the cutting of lumber and the misuse of forests were suggested as early as the seventeenth century.

Plymouth Colony in 1626 passed an ordinance prohibiting the cutting of timber from the Colony lands without official consent.