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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



forestry, which are true all the world over, with Ameri- 

 can methods of lumbering. The product will be a 

 system of forestry especially adapted to the United 

 States. The foundations of such a system are already 

 laid. 



CONSERVATIVE LUMBERING. 



Something was said in the last chapter about the sys- 

 tematic methods of conservative lumbering. With the 



FIG. 23. Logging of great mechanical perfection among the Big Trees of 

 California. 



gradual understanding and application of these methods 

 by American lumbermen, already well begun, and with 

 the work in the woods rightly carried out, there is but 

 one reason why the great majority of the forests now 

 standing in the United States should not in the end 



