Excerpt: If all forests, private as well as public, were managed on a continuing yield basis instead of being cut as on most privately owned land solely for the maximum present yield without care for the subsequent fate of the land and forest, large amounts of employment would be provided for tributary populations, in addition to that from lumbering or other harvesting of the wood crop. This would be through the cultural operations in caring for the succeeding crop as well as the protection of the whole property from fire, diseases, and trespass. Tributary communities would then have a continuing basis of stabilized prosperity, instead of a feverish but short-lived one succeeded by decay and stagnation.
