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speculator has too often led him to abandon to the 

 destructive action of the elements the area he has 

 thus despoiled, in order to seek another, as yet 

 unbroken, forest area. 



Instead of carefully removing some of the trees 

 from the forest, and leaving the area in such a 

 condition as to enable it to produce a new growth, 

 in the United States it has too frequently been 

 the case that the virgin forest is thoughtlessly 

 attacked, its best trees cut down in so careless a 

 manner that the harvested crop amounts to, per- 

 haps, but a third, or even less, of the total growth, 

 and the remaining part abandoned to certain 

 destruction by the elements. 



The irreparable loss caused by such greed should 

 be prevented by the enactment of judicious penal 

 laws. 



It is often very difficult to persuade the general 

 public that evil results following any course of 

 action, which do not come immediately, are not 

 thereby prevented from coming eventually. Be- 

 cause the evil day draws not nigh quickly, there 

 is a tendency to believe that it will never come at 

 all. 



An attempt has been made in the " Outlines of 

 Forestry" to point out to the general public, in 



