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Looming Forest Crisis Shifts US Timber Foundations
The article warns that by 1930 eight years will see 8,000 big sawmills closed and output fall by half, leaving Pacific coast timber to meet demand. It urges reforestation and describes two congressional bills Capper and Snell, plus a national forestry policy effort led by the U S Chamber of Commerce. It cites Chicago as a major lumber market and details rising transport costs due to exhausted regional forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Pennsylvania
Lake States
Gulf States
Southern Pine Association
Pacific Coast
United States Bureau of Corporations
United States
Congress
Capper
Snell
National Forestry Policy Committee
United States Chamber of Commerce
New York
Chicago
Minneapolis
Spokane
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
David L. Goodwillie
Charles S. Keith
Central Coal & Coke Company
Kansas City
F. C. Knapp
Peninsular Lumber Company
Oregon
George L. Curtis
Curtis Companies, Inc
Clinton
Iowa
John Fletcher
Fort Dearborn National Bank
Ill
Charles F. Quincy
Q. and C. Company
New York City
Henry 8. Drinker
Merion Station
Hugh P. Baker
American Paper & Pulp Association
Harvey N. Shepart
Boston
Mass
Junius H. Browne
Pacific Lumber Company
W. B. Heinemann
B. Heinemann Lumber Company
Wausau
Wis
W. D.B. Brookings
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Washington, D. C
Ilinois
National Forests
Forest Service
Bureau
Agriculture Department
Col
W. B. Greeley
Colonel Greeley
Central
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Prof
P. S. Lovejoy
Forestry Faculty
University of Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Upper Peninsula
Ohio
Detroit
Arkansas
Mississippi
Grand Rapids
Louisiana
Tennessee
Idaho
Virginia
California
Pennsylva