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C. A. SCHENCK. 



The Percentage of Forest Area by States in the Union is shown 

 in the followincr table: 



The percentages tabulated above, taken from Forest Service 

 circular No. 166, are at variance with those given by Gannett 

 in the census report of 1900. 



In the deserts, prairies, and prairie borders, there is not and 

 never will be sufficient woodland to influence materially the 

 general conditions of the commonweal. In the Rocky and in 



