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... Lumbermen ? -Some Imaginary Obstacles - Economic Conditions in Europe and America - Intensive Management - The Real Obstacles . CHAPTER VIII FORESTRY AND GOVERNMENT Double Relation of Government to Forests - Public Lands- Private and ...
... Lumbermen ? -Some Imaginary Obstacles - Economic Conditions in Europe and America - Intensive Management - The Real Obstacles . CHAPTER VIII FORESTRY AND GOVERNMENT Double Relation of Government to Forests - Public Lands- Private and ...
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... lumbermen had known what we know now , -that the natural supply of lumber would be sufficient for our needs for less than a hundred years . It could have been done , above all , if those pioneers had held the same attitude to the forest ...
... lumbermen had known what we know now , -that the natural supply of lumber would be sufficient for our needs for less than a hundred years . It could have been done , above all , if those pioneers had held the same attitude to the forest ...
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... lumbermen are fully convinced now that the giving out of the original material is a mere question of time . Nowhere in North America is lumber fit for general building purposes cut from second - growth timber , that is , from timber ...
... lumbermen are fully convinced now that the giving out of the original material is a mere question of time . Nowhere in North America is lumber fit for general building purposes cut from second - growth timber , that is , from timber ...
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... lumbermen were fastidious indeed as to what and where they would cut . They would take only the largest and soundest pines , in localities near the big streams , where logs could be carried to the water's edge at the smallest possible ...
... lumbermen were fastidious indeed as to what and where they would cut . They would take only the largest and soundest pines , in localities near the big streams , where logs could be carried to the water's edge at the smallest possible ...
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... lumbermen have gone up to the very headwaters of the streams and along brooks of the smallest kind . On these the logs cut during the winter are floated down loosely , taking advantage of the high water when the snow melts . Usually the ...
... lumbermen have gone up to the very headwaters of the streams and along brooks of the smallest kind . On these the logs cut during the winter are floated down loosely , taking advantage of the high water when the snow melts . Usually the ...
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