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Teddy Roosevelt: “Forests can be lumbered so as to give to the public the full use of their mercantile timber without the slightest…”

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Forests can be lumbered so as to give to the public the full use of their mercantile timber without the slightest detriment to the forest, any more than it is a detriment to a farm to furnish a harvest; so that there is no parallel between forests and mines, which can only be completely used by exhaustion.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He argues that forests can be sustainably managed for timber without harming their long-term health.

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