CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTION i 



Civilization Founded on Natural Conditions Interest Attaching 

 to this Relation Not a Subject for Sentimentalists Purpose 

 of this Volume Not Intended for Professional Foresters 

 Treatment of Forests a Test of Democratic Government. 



CHAPTER II 

 THE NORTH AMERICAN FOREST 5 



Northern Temperate Forest Regions Subdivisions of the North 

 American Forest Distribution of Forests not Accidental The 

 Forest an Organism Subject to Definite Laws The Eastern 

 Forest The Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast Forests 

 Causes of Distribution The Warfare of the Forest How 

 Phases of the Struggle Become of Importance in Silviculture 

 Weapons of Offense and Defense Windfalls Succession of 

 Species The Forest under the Control of Man. 



CHAPTER III 



THE FOREST AND MAN 34 



Great Britain and the American Woods Naval Stores The 

 Surveyor-General of the Woods One of the Causes of the Revo- 

 lution The Fur Trade The Backwoodsman His Characteris- 

 tics the Product of Forest Influences How He Affected American 

 History Settlement in the Western Forests The Indian Trail 

 Lost in the Woods Transportation Facilities Advent of the 

 Railway Man the Conqueror Rise of the Lumber Industry 

 The Inexhaustible Supply. 



