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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...had constitutional power to compel reforestation; that either the United States Government or the state governments could be brought to pass laws to that effect, and commence at once, how long would it take those forests that were begun now before they produced trees fit for lumber? Mr. Goodyear. I think it would take until about ten years before our lumber is gone. The Chairman. When do you expect our lumber to be gone at the present rate? Mr. Goodyear. It may be gone in something like fifty or sixty years. The Chairman. Fifty or sixty years? Mr. Goodyear. Yes. The Chairman. You do not agree with Professor Pinchot about it? Mr. Goodyear. Oh, not by any means. Yon see, for I think at least forty years now we have had prediction after prediction that the white-pine lumber would be gone in Michigan in ten years; but they have been lumbering there ever since. The Chairman. Of course it would require a good many years to settle the constitutional authority of the Government, and, after that was done, a good many years more to put the law into etfect; and even at your rate of reforestation it would it would look as though we would have to resort to concrete and brick and everything else in order to help out the lumber supply. Mr. Goodyear. Oh, no; because some of the States have already begun reforestation--Pennsylvania, for instance. The Chairman. I think the State of Maine has done so, and the courts so far have declared the law constitutional. Mr. Goodyear. And the State of Pennsylvania, also. The Chairman. But that is a very small beginning in the whole United States. Mr. Goodyear. Pennsylvania is a big place. Pennsylvania has a great area; and they have begun reforestation there. At least, they nave begun the purchase of lands in Pennsylvania. They have pur...Hide synopsis
