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... Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation . CHAPTER V DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION Erroneous Notions - Great Area of Woodland still in Existence -Disappearance of Merchantable Timber - Legitimate Removal of Forest - Causes of Forest ...
... Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation . CHAPTER V DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION Erroneous Notions - Great Area of Woodland still in Existence -Disappearance of Merchantable Timber - Legitimate Removal of Forest - Causes of Forest ...
Page 67
... merchantable timber in the pri- meval woods of the country . That story is no longer credited , and even the lumbermen are fully convinced now that the giving out of the original material is a mere question of time . Nowhere in North ...
... merchantable timber in the pri- meval woods of the country . That story is no longer credited , and even the lumbermen are fully convinced now that the giving out of the original material is a mere question of time . Nowhere in North ...
Page 68
... lumber and becomes a farming country . But it is otherwise where an area is denuded of its merchantable timber and hence- forth lies as an idle waste , stocked at best with scrub and inferior species of trees - weeds , as the forester ...
... lumber and becomes a farming country . But it is otherwise where an area is denuded of its merchantable timber and hence- forth lies as an idle waste , stocked at best with scrub and inferior species of trees - weeds , as the forester ...
Page 69
... merchantable pine is to be found . How long it will hold out is uncertain , but hardly more than twenty years , even with somewhat reduced output . What will be the consequence of this exhaustion of white pine lumber ? To the States ...
... merchantable pine is to be found . How long it will hold out is uncertain , but hardly more than twenty years , even with somewhat reduced output . What will be the consequence of this exhaustion of white pine lumber ? To the States ...
Page 72
... merchantable size will be cut there . On the contrary , some white pine , for local con- sumption or special uses , will continue to be pro- duced , but it will not be enough to cut a figure in the lumber markets of the entire country ...
... merchantable size will be cut there . On the contrary , some white pine , for local con- sumption or special uses , will continue to be pro- duced , but it will not be enough to cut a figure in the lumber markets of the entire country ...
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