SILVICULTURE. 



II. The culled forest usually exists in localities where timber 

 has a higher value than in the primeval backwoods. 



Indeed, where the culling of the forest has made great progress 

 in a state or in a county, there the culled forest is getting rapidly 

 ripe for sylvicultural treatment. 



Heavy culling merely proves a high range of stumpage prices, 

 fostered by a near-by market and by good means of transportation. 



Yvaere the forest has been culled only of decidedly mature 

 trees, there the chances for good results, are bright, financially as 

 well as sylviculturally. 



The attitude which the owner of culled forests adopts towards 

 sylvicultural investments, necessarily depends on a diagnosis of the 

 future of the lumber industry appealing to him. 



III. The cultured forest is still a rarity in the United States, 

 and will continue to be a rarity during our lifetime. 



Imagine for a moment, that the famous Black forest of Ger- 

 many were suddenly transferred, with its fine Spruce woods, its 

 splendid roads and its skilled laborers, into the heart of the Adi- 

 rondacks! Would it be wise, financially, to continue its sylvicul- 

 tural treatment as inaugurated in Germany? 



It certainly would; the logs salable in the Black Forest are 

 also salable in the Adirondacks at a good profit. And a network of 

 splendid roads would tend to cheapen transportation by exactly 

 that many cents per standard, which the stumpage itself would 

 gain per standard. 



On the other hand, that same Black Forest transferred to the 

 Pacific coast say into the Olympic mountains would certainly 

 prove a financial and therefore a sylvicultural failure. 



The better it pays to cull the forest, the closer at hand is 

 the time of the cultured forest. 



It must be kept in mind, however, that the change from the 

 culled to the cultured forest requires, aside from a market for the 

 products obtained and from the willingness of the owner to embark 

 in sylvicultural investments, 



a. Investments in permanent means of transportation; 



b. Relative safety from forest fires; 



c. Time. 



Wherever the woods emerge in a decrepit condition from the 

 primeval stage after reckless lumbering, heavy fires, unlimited 

 pasturage, there the adoption of a system will be found necessary 

 after scores of years breaking entirely with the past and raising, 



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