Forest Resources and Conservation

The new spirit of the old South breathes &dquo;opportunity.&dquo;It is still the old South with all its charm and glamour and hospitality, extending wide its arms and speaking in a new voice to the world.It is opportunity that calls for a vast and profitable exploitation of her material resources in all the things which are making this a new field for human endeavor and national prosperity, and opportunity that calls for wise statesmanship and unselfishness in all which makes for their proper exploitation and their wise conservation.Of the South's material resources, her heritage of forests must be accounted as of large, if not indeed paramount, importance, for in the sixteen states denominated and accounted here as southern, lie all of one of the five great original forest types, the southern, a considerable portion of the northern, and the largest part of the central, or nearly one-half of the original forest area of the nation.