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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



ing Newcastle, Chatham, and Douglastown, were de- 

 stroyed. One hundred and sixty persons perished, and 

 nearly a thousand head of stock. The loss from the 

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

 the value of the timber. 



FIG. 75. Fire sometimes renews an old forest by killing the veterans and so 

 permitting vigorous young trees to take their place. The rotting stubs of 

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

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

 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 afterwards. The loss of the stumpage 

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



