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other applications where a hard, heavy wood is required. Quebracho 

 from Paraguay is so hard that a strong nail cannot penetrate it even 

 under heavy blows. 



The study of trees and how best to grow them under a great diver- 

 sity of climatic, altitude, and soil conditions, and how to convert trees 

 and their products best to serve mankind, is most fascinating and 

 absorbing. Recent in its interest and application in this country, for- 



FIG. 5. One of the many hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps camps 

 located in the western National Forests. This is a tent camp along Priest Lake 

 in northern Idaho in a forest completely destroyed by fire. These snags (standing 

 dead trees) will be cut and the area reforested by planting western white pine 

 and ponderosa pine trees. 



estry has been practiced in Europe for several centuries. The forests 

 of Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are so vital in their domestic and 

 foreign commerce, as well as important in their social benefits, that 

 wide popular recognition is given them. The author believes that, 

 in the coming years, forestry will receive the recognition it deserves 

 in its application to the daily lives and welfare of large numbers of 

 our people. 



Forestry has shown the way to national and regional land plan- 



