Abstract The chief need of American forestry is a more effective treatment of the human obstacles to forestry. In the first of three articles dealing with the human obstacles to silviculture the author urges a house-cleaning of the current skepticism regarding the importance of forests to human welfare. This skepticism is based chiefly on declining lumber consumption; but the recent Forest Service survey of lumber used in remanufacture forces the conclusion that declining consumption is chiefly due to forest destruction and depiction in the eastern United States, which has destroyed one of the best markets for lumber--the local wood-remanufacturing industries. The only cure for the forest and marketing problem is silviculture to produce high-grade timber.
Ward Shepard (Mon,) studied this question.