The Economic Value of Forests 



FROM the earliest days forests have played an 

 important part in the history of America. To 

 the first settlers they gave shelter and warmth. 

 Their homes, their schools, their meeting-houses 

 were, for the most part, built of the rough timber. 

 The blockhouses and stockades, to which the 

 people fled in times of danger, were also made 1 of 

 logs; and the thick, strong walls of these log forts 

 resisted well the attacks of Indians, thereby sav- 

 ing the lives of many a brave man and his wife 

 and children. 



The Indians were wise in the ways of the woods. 



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