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... Purpose of this Volume - Not Intended for Professional Foresters- Treatment of Forests a Test of Democratic Government . CHAPTER II THE NORTH AMERICAN FOREST PAGE I · 5 Northern Temperate Forest Regions — Subdivisions of the North ...
... Purpose of this Volume - Not Intended for Professional Foresters- Treatment of Forests a Test of Democratic Government . CHAPTER II THE NORTH AMERICAN FOREST PAGE I · 5 Northern Temperate Forest Regions — Subdivisions of the North ...
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... purposes . By creating conditions favoring some particular species of tree he is able to help it to spread and flourish at the expense of its compet- itors ; and similarly he may create conditions which help the forest as a whole to ...
... purposes . By creating conditions favoring some particular species of tree he is able to help it to spread and flourish at the expense of its compet- itors ; and similarly he may create conditions which help the forest as a whole to ...
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... purposes , it follows that to make his trees . most valuable the forester allows them to follow up the period of rapid height growth by a period of prevalent diameter increase . In other words , he now cuts away the weaker , half ...
... purposes , it follows that to make his trees . most valuable the forester allows them to follow up the period of rapid height growth by a period of prevalent diameter increase . In other words , he now cuts away the weaker , half ...
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... purposes . To understand clearly how such control is possible , we must bear in mind that it is done , not by sus- pending or reversing the action of the processes of nature , but by guiding and giving special directions to them . Such ...
... purposes . To understand clearly how such control is possible , we must bear in mind that it is done , not by sus- pending or reversing the action of the processes of nature , but by guiding and giving special directions to them . Such ...
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... purposes , or to submit to any kind of discipline , which later on was shown so often and sometimes with disastrous results by the people of the Middle West . Among the people who took up their abode in the backwoods were men of all the ...
... purposes , or to submit to any kind of discipline , which later on was shown so often and sometimes with disastrous results by the people of the Middle West . Among the people who took up their abode in the backwoods were men of all the ...
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