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CHAPTER IV 



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THE FOREST INDUSTRIES ...... 60 



Economic Importance of Forest Industries Some of the Minor 

 Branches Wood Pulp Fuel The Lumber Business Hard and 

 Soft Woods, So-called Little to Learn from Europe How Long 

 will the Original Supply Last? Substitutes for Wood How 

 Lumbering is Carried on Recent Changes in Method Rafting 

 Booms and Dams At the Mill Grades of Lumber Logging 

 Railways The Cruiser The Lumber Camp The River Drive 

 Lumbering in the South and on the Pacific Coast Scaling 

 Logs Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation. 



CHAPTER V 

 DESTRUCTION AND DETERIORATION . . . .89 



Erroneous Notions Great Area of Woodland still in Existence 

 Disappearance of Merchantable Timber Legitimate Removal 

 of Forest Causes of Forest Destruction Woodland Wastes 

 The Principal Guilt with the American People The Forest Fires 

 Origin of Fires How Small Fires Become Large Damage 

 Done by Fire Villages Destroyed Lives Lost Some Great Con- 

 flagrations Attitude of the Settlers Comparative Immunity of 

 Broad-leaved Forests Reforestation of Burnt-over Areas In- 

 jury by Pasturing Cattle. 



CHAPTER VI 

 FORESTS AND FORESTRY 121 



What Forestry Is Not, and What It Is Not a New Thing in 

 the United States Reform Needed The Art of Utilizing 

 Forests Divers Uses of Forests Annual Revenues from Perma- 

 nent Forests Incidental Uses of Forests Private and Public 

 Interest in Forests Different Forms of Forest Policy Protective 

 Forests Misunderstandings Silviculture Financial Considera- 

 tions. 



CHAPTER VII 



FOREST FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT .... 140 



Forestry and Agriculture When the Crop Is Ripe Biological 

 Factors Yield Tables Financial Factors Market Price 

 Transportation Forest Management Working Plans Rota- 



