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... River Drive -Lumbering in the South and on the Pacific Coast - Scaling Logs - Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation . CHAPTER V DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION Erroneous Notions - Great Area of Woodland still in Existence ...
... River Drive -Lumbering in the South and on the Pacific Coast - Scaling Logs - Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation . CHAPTER V DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION Erroneous Notions - Great Area of Woodland still in Existence ...
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... river ; the forests of the Rocky Mountain regions , including the minor moun- tain ranges of the great basin ; and the Pacific coast forest . The immense areas lying between these subdivisions are occupied by the grass plains of the ...
... river ; the forests of the Rocky Mountain regions , including the minor moun- tain ranges of the great basin ; and the Pacific coast forest . The immense areas lying between these subdivisions are occupied by the grass plains of the ...
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... river . But farther to the south , there was a large region where forest and prairie struggled for mastery , with the result that , generally speaking , the prairies covered the undulating uplands , sedge marshes the wet , broad ...
... river . But farther to the south , there was a large region where forest and prairie struggled for mastery , with the result that , generally speaking , the prairies covered the undulating uplands , sedge marshes the wet , broad ...
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... river bot- toms are but smallish . No one who has en- tered those dense forests composed of trees 250 feet tall and having six and more feet in diameter has failed to be impressed with their grandeur , and literature is filled with ...
... river bot- toms are but smallish . No one who has en- tered those dense forests composed of trees 250 feet tall and having six and more feet in diameter has failed to be impressed with their grandeur , and literature is filled with ...
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... rivers and lakes . As the land was laid bare , vege- tation recovered the lost territory step by step . At first , the character of the land recently left by the ice was undoubtedly very much like what we find to - day in the Barren ...
... rivers and lakes . As the land was laid bare , vege- tation recovered the lost territory step by step . At first , the character of the land recently left by the ice was undoubtedly very much like what we find to - day in the Barren ...
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