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Teddy Roosevelt: “If the present rate of forest destruction is allowed to continue, a timber famine is inevitable.”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1905
If the present rate of forest destruction is allowed to continue, a timber famine is inevitable.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at a Meeting of the American Forest Congress

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