Abstract This address delivered last winter at several regional conferences of western retail lumbermen, looks forward to the place of the West Coast lumber industry in the postwar world. It foresees clearly three things: a change from the virgin forest to the timber crop as the industry's chief source of raw material; a broader and a more varied market for its product; and the most active building decade in the history of the United States, with an enormous demand for materials to reconstruct the war-shattered countries overseas.
W. B. Greeley (1945) studied this question.