Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from People and Timber: A Review of America's Timber
One of the principal reasons for the great expansion isthe sharp increase in our population. Our death rate has declined, our birth rate has zoomed. Ten years ago we had 140 million citizens; today we have over 160 million. Our population has doubled since 1900.
Our Nation may have about 210 million people in 1975. And in the year 2000 - about 275 million.
Our inherited abundance of timber is a major factor in the growth of our dynamic economy. Timber products account for about one - fourth of all the raw materials We use in manufacturing and building. More than 12 billion cubic feet of timber products are consumed yearly: Saw logs for lumber, pulpwood for paper, fuelwood, posts, poles, piling, and other logs and bolts from which products such as veneer and cooperage are made.
The average American uses about 80 cubic feet of wood per year. Lumber is used in greater amounts than any other industrial timber product. Each one of us uses twice as much lumber as a Russian, four times as much as an Englishman, and six times as much as a Frenchman. Our use of paper, too, far exceeds that of any other country.
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