Forests Were Once Deliberately Firtd to Improve the Range (Pege 658) 



the steeper hill and mountain sides, 

 which, in their turn, must necessarily 

 soon be washed and worn to sterility. 



The lumbermen first operated in the 

 lowlands where the best timber erew 



the trees, they left a semblance of forest 

 behind. 



With the depletion of the lowland 

 forests, they have moved up, through 

 the foothills and into the mountains. 



and logging and transportation were and are now stripping the mountain- 

 cheapest and, cutting only a part of tops and sides of whatever usable tim- 



Fire Follows the Lumberman: White Pine Wreckage in Wisconsin (Page 661) 



