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Correspondence regarding the destruction of United States forests

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  • H.R. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF FORESTRY I I WASHINGTON D C Office of the Forester August 16j 1901. 6 Dr. C. P. Ambler, Sec'y., The Appalachian Nat'l. Park Ass'n., Asheville, N. C, My dear Sir: Your letter of the 14th, addressed to Mr. Pinchot, has been received during his absence in the West, As to the statement to which you refer, to the effect that forest destruction is being carried on in this country to such an extent that on an average it amounts to sane thing like sixteen or twenty thousand acres per day, I regret that this Bureau is not in possession of any figures by which such an estimate might be verified. It would seem to be a very difficult matter, however, to make even an approximately correct estimate of that kind. According to the report on the Forests of the United States, in the 19th Annual Report of the Geological Survey, 1897-1398, by Mr. Henry Gannett, Chief Geographer, the annual consumption of timber, for all purposes, expressed in feet, B.M., is 225,000,000,000, in round numbers. Very truly your3, 6i>o^li Acting Forester.
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