(#168583) Vanishing forest reserves: problems of the national forests and national parks by Willard G. Van Name. WILLARD GIBBS VAN NAME.

Vanishing forest reserves: problems of the national forests and national parks by Willard G. Van Name. Boston: Richard G. Badger, Publisher, The Gorham Press, [1929]. Single sheet, 24.2x31 cm, folded to make 4 pages, 1 illustration. Prospectus for this impassioned plea for the preservation of timbered lands supervised by the Forest Service which provided the best summary of Van Name's position on the management of national parks and forests. He believed that timber was sold by the Forest Service for a fraction of its true value and trees were cut at a pace too rapid to allow for natural reforestation -- practices which would create a future timber shortage. He attacked Forest Service efforts to gain control of commercially valuable stands of timber in the national parks. Van Name called for public action to "make plain its determination to have the national forests put on a sound economic permanent basis and the fine scenic places in all the public lands both in the national forests in charge of the Forest Service and in the national parks, preserved from commercial exploitation that will destroy or impair the attractiveness or interest that nature endowed them with." Old horizontal mailing folds, several short splits along the folds, a veery good copy. (#168583).

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