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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



iug Newcastle, Cbatliam, and Doiiglastown, were de- 

 stroyed. Que liimdred and sixty persons i)erislied, and 

 nearly a tliousand head of stock. The loss from the 

 Miramichi fire is estimated at $300,000, not including 

 the value of the timber. 



Fig. 75.— Fire sometiiues renews an old forest by killing tlie veterans and so 

 permitting Tigorous young tree.s to take their place. The rotting slabs of 

 fire-killed veterans of lied Fir are seen in the picture surrounded by young 

 standards of Red Fir and Western Hemlock. Olympic Forest Eeserve, 



Washington. 



In the majority of such forest fires as this the destruc- 

 tion of the timber is a more serious loss, by far, than 

 that of the cattle and buildings, for it carries with it 

 the impoverishment of a whole region for tens or even 

 hundreds of years after^yards. The loss of the stumpage 

 value of the timber at the time of the fire is but a small 



