Reforestation ... Report: Pursuant to S. Res. 398 of the Sixty-seventh Congress. ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 29 strani |
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40 per cent acreage acres of forest acres of virgin agriculture annually approximately board feet chestnut blight commercial reforestation committee consumed consumption contain cooperation cost crop cut-over lands denuded land depletion Eastern extensive factor farm holdings favorable Federal Government forest area forest fires forest growth forest industries forest land forest products forest properties forest regions forestry freight growing of timber hazard increased JAMES COUZENS Lake landowners lands from fire legislation less loss lumber trade million acres national forests naval stores navigable streams nearly Northeastern Pacific coast planting portions present private timber growing production of timber protection from forest protection of forest public forest ownership public ownership pulp wood purpose quantities reduced Rocky Mountain second growth second-growth timber softwood southern pine supply of timber taxation timber supply tion transportation trees United utilized valuable virgin forests virgin stumpage virgin timber watersheds of navigable Weeks law white pine
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Stran 1 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Stran 1 - ... and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $5,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
Stran 26 - Immediate results from a project of this nature cannot be anticipated, but in the long run it should prove an important factor in eliminating obstacles which now stand in the way of private timber growing. Reforms in forest taxation can only be brought about by an extended process of public education, first, as to the present facts and their effect upon timber growth, and, second, as to equitable means of modifying the existing conditions. The importance of the subject is so great that the Federal...
Stran 1 - ... any Congress) as it deems advisable. Each such committee may make investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, may report such hearings as may be had by it, and may employ stenographic assistance at a cost not exceeding 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
Stran 1 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee is authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places...
Stran 24 - Committee believes that the main lines of attack in accomplishing this purpose should be : " (1) To extend public forest ownership in areas where special public interests or responsibilities are involved, like the protection of navigable rivers; and also where the natural difficulties, costs, and hazards attending reforestation render it impracticable or remote as a private undertaking. " (2) To remove the risks and handicaps from private timber growing as far as practicable, in order to give the...
Stran 12 - ... lumber manufactured during that year was cut in the far South and over 31 per cent on the Pacific coast. The average carload was hauled 485 miles. The history of lumber manufacture in the United States has been one of successive migrations into fresh fields of virgin timber, each shift leaving the main saw milling industry farther removed from the principal consumers of its product. In the six years prior to 1920 the average rail haul on lumber increased over 30 per cent, the total freight paid...
Stran 13 - Our hardwood saw timber is dissappearing approximately three and a half times as fast as it is being replaced. Including fuel wood, small material utilized in paper making and distillation, and all other products of the forest, it may be said that 25 per cent of the current drain upon the national supply of wood is replaced...
Stran 11 - ... of the pristine resource as far as that can be approximated. One of the most serious aspects of the national situation is the unbalanced geographical distribution of the standing timber that still remains. Three-fourths of the forest land, including denuded and second growth areas, lies east of the Great Plains; but the process of timber depletion has gone so far in this portion of the Union that it now contains but 25 per cent of the virgin stumpage yet uncut and but 40 per cent of all of the...
Stran 12 - ... markets. The price paid by the average user of everyday construction lumber has more than doubled within the last 12 years; indeed the freight now paid on lumber is often more than its delivered price 30 years ago. Within the past 80 years the average retail price of lumber has advanced three and one-half times as rapidly as the index price based upon all staple commodities. In 1921, $510 was required to purchase as much lumber — and poorer in quality — as could be bought for $100 in 1840.