ELEMENTS OE EORESTRY 



WITH SUGGESTIONS. 



The object of Forestry is not to preserve 

 intact the virgin forests, and thus deprive 

 man of the use of its products, such as wood 

 required for fuel, the making of charcoal, 

 building of vessels, houses, carriages, fences, 

 etc., its use for railroad ties, telegraph poles, 

 mining purposes, bark for tanning, and the 

 manufacture of numberless large and small 

 wares for the use and convenience of man. 

 It designs to teach the best way to glean rich 

 and ample harvests of lumber, or even to re- 

 move large areas of forests where the lands 

 are fertile, accessible, and well adapted to 

 agriculture, for clearing of roads, for the lay- 

 ing out of towns and cities. 



Its design is to protect and save the boun- 

 teous rainfall by maintaining the forests on 

 high mountain slopes, because the rainfall is 

 greatest there there the rivers take their rise. 

 Remove the forests, and the waters drain off 

 so rapidly that dangerous floods occur, caus- 

 ing avalanches and mountain slides, sweeping 

 everything before them, taking away vast 

 quantities of the real forest floor, leaving an 

 irreparable, barren, rocky waste, a menace to 

 man and beast, causing more frequent, earlier, 

 and heavier frosts, droughts, sudden changes 

 in temperature, severe hail-storms all work- 

 ing constant injury to the 'diligent bread- 

 winner on the lower levels. The people of 

 California may take a hint from the interest 

 in forestry in the east. There is seldom a 

 lack of ra'infall there, and nature provided it 



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