FOREST PRIMER: “From Nature the people of the United States
inherited a wealth of natural resources. Many of these we have
spent recklessly because of the very immensity of them. They seemed
beyond the possibility of exhaustion. The  forests are one of our
natural resources that we have spent with a free hand. We have not
protected our inheritance but let it fritter away before the
assault of fire and waste.”

This is one of the many “lessons” contained in The Forestry Primer
published by the American Tree Association in 1926 which we began
telling you about yesterday.

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