48 A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



Care is needed in skidding not to rub or tear the bark 

 from valuable standing trees, or to break the young 

 growth down, for much harm is quickly done in this 

 waj 7 . Promising young trees are often cut because it 

 is easier to use them for corduroy or skids, or for other 

 purposes in the logging than to take others less straight 



FIG. 31. Destructive use of young spruce for road building. Adirondack 

 Mountains, New York. 



or less conveniently at hand, or because they are some- 

 what in the way, or even from habit, when it would 

 really be easier to let them alone. A very little care in 

 preserving young growth makes an astonishing differ- 

 ence in the future value of a forest. 



