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... Woodland still in Existence -Disappearance of Merchantable Timber - Legitimate Removal of Forest - Causes of Forest Destruction - Woodland Wastes- The Principal Guilt with the American People - The Forest Fires —Origin of Fires - How ...
... Woodland still in Existence -Disappearance of Merchantable Timber - Legitimate Removal of Forest - Causes of Forest Destruction - Woodland Wastes- The Principal Guilt with the American People - The Forest Fires —Origin of Fires - How ...
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... woodlands — consists in just such interference in the natural processes of forest development , rather than planting and sowing . In order to understand the relations of forestry to our national life , the reader should have in his mind ...
... woodlands — consists in just such interference in the natural processes of forest development , rather than planting and sowing . In order to understand the relations of forestry to our national life , the reader should have in his mind ...
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... woodlands . That is the fact that the trees , in many cases , stand far apart , so that their crowns do not always touch . While in the east the trees , both broad - leaved and evergreen , stand so close together that the branches ...
... woodlands . That is the fact that the trees , in many cases , stand far apart , so that their crowns do not always touch . While in the east the trees , both broad - leaved and evergreen , stand so close together that the branches ...
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... woodland , growing healthily under undis- turbed natural conditions , one will be able to find trees of all ages , from the patriarch of several cen- turies down to the little seedling just showing the tip of its stem above the litter ...
... woodland , growing healthily under undis- turbed natural conditions , one will be able to find trees of all ages , from the patriarch of several cen- turies down to the little seedling just showing the tip of its stem above the litter ...
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... woodland enough to supply them with the needed lumber , would have seemed an utter absurdity to him . To be sure , where settlers came in thick and fast , the forest might disappear and farms take its place ; but then there would always ...
... woodland enough to supply them with the needed lumber , would have seemed an utter absurdity to him . To be sure , where settlers came in thick and fast , the forest might disappear and farms take its place ; but then there would always ...
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