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A PBOIER (3F FORESTRY. 



storms are strong- enough to break the trees they can 

 not overthrow. Damage from wind is not uncommon 

 in many parts of the United States, and in places the 



Joss from if, is very serious. 



(See 



iigs. 69j 



70.) :N^ear 



the town of High Springs, 

 for examph', in Alachua 

 Count}', ria., in a region 

 very subject to such acci- 

 dents, there is a tract of 

 many square miles, once 

 covered with Long-leaf 

 Pine, over which practi- 

 cally all the trees were 

 killed by a great storm sev- 

 eral years ago. Some were 

 thrown flat, some were so 

 racked and so broken in the 

 topthattheydied, and very 

 many were snapped ofl' at 



Fig. 71._A young Spruce loaded with ^Om 15 tO 30 feet above the 

 snow. Avalanche Lake, Adirondack grOUUd. There iS little 



Mountains, New Vork. • j. i • j.- 



use m taking precautions 

 against such great calamities, yet the loss from windfall 

 may be very much reduced by judicious cutting. An 

 unbroken forest is least exposed. 



SNOW IX THE FOREST. 



Snow often loads down, breaks, and crushes tall 

 young trees, especially if wet snow falls heavily be- 

 fore the broadleaf trees have shed their foliage in the 

 fall. Such injury is ditticult to guard against, but it 

 is well to know that very slim, tall trees suffer more 

 than those whose growth in diameter and height have 



