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... Western Forests - The Indian Trail -Lost in the Woods - Transportation Facilities - Advent of the Railway - Man the Conqueror - Rise of the Lumber Industry— The Inexhaustible Supply . 34 233663 CHAPTER IV THE FOREST INDUSTRIES Economic ...
... Western Forests - The Indian Trail -Lost in the Woods - Transportation Facilities - Advent of the Railway - Man the Conqueror - Rise of the Lumber Industry— The Inexhaustible Supply . 34 233663 CHAPTER IV THE FOREST INDUSTRIES Economic ...
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... western forests , or the larger portion of them , which makes their aspect quite different from eastern woodlands ... western forests becomes much drier than it ever does in the east . This fact will probably have an important bearing ...
... western forests , or the larger portion of them , which makes their aspect quite different from eastern woodlands ... western forests becomes much drier than it ever does in the east . This fact will probably have an important bearing ...
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... western forest does not apply to those portions found in the western halves of Oregon and Washington , and thence stretching along the coast into Alaska and far towards the Arctic regions . On the contrary , these are among the densest ...
... western forest does not apply to those portions found in the western halves of Oregon and Washington , and thence stretching along the coast into Alaska and far towards the Arctic regions . On the contrary , these are among the densest ...
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... western Wisconsin . Before the advance of the ice and the cooling of the climate that was both cause and consequence of the glaciation , the forests suc- cumbed , and the species composing them were either extinguished or became ...
... western Wisconsin . Before the advance of the ice and the cooling of the climate that was both cause and consequence of the glaciation , the forests suc- cumbed , and the species composing them were either extinguished or became ...
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... western commonwealths had to be changed from those of the East not a little to fit the altered circumstances . The fact that the original immì- grants settled on isolated homesteads sometimes miles away from the nearest neighbor had ...
... western commonwealths had to be changed from those of the East not a little to fit the altered circumstances . The fact that the original immì- grants settled on isolated homesteads sometimes miles away from the nearest neighbor had ...
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