American Forestry 



VOL. XXI 



MAY, 1915 



No. 5 



THE GREAT WAR AND GERMAN 



FORESTS 



By POULTNEY BiGELOW, M. A., F. R. G. S. 

 Late Lecturer on "National Expansion" in the Law Department of Boston University 



[The noted author of this article said in a letter accompanying it: — "In general it's my 

 private opinion that Belgium will not have wood enough left for toothpicks when the war is over; 

 for it's no joke to warm a million men round the bivouac fire on successive cold nights; and as you 

 know, soldiers in the enemy's country are apt to be careless! Even WE were such in the civil 

 war!"— Editor.] 



THE Editor of American Fores- another way of saying that men and 



TRY pays me the compliment of trees Hve for one another; and no tree 



calHng upon me for a contribu- can sufifer without an injury to mankind, 



tion that shall include the Forests were the foundations of 



Great War and its effect on forests — German greatness. Need I recall ele- 



L.-^RGE Silver Fir .\xd Regeneration of Same Species 



IN THIS forest only THE CROOKED AND DEFECTIVE TREES H.WE BEEN CUT DOWN. THE PRESENT OVER STANDARDS 

 WILL BE REMOVED IN TEN YEARS. BADENWEILER, SCHWARTZWALD — BADEN, GERM.A.NY 



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