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protect the forests from many destructive agencies. Wasteful 

 lumbering and fire are the worst enemies of the forest. 

 Fungi, insects, grazing, wind, snow and floods are the other 

 enemies. 



By wasteful lumliering is meant that the forest is cut 

 with no regard for the future and with considerable waste 



Fig. 1.32. — The Result of a Forest Fire. The trees, lodgepole pine 

 and Englemann spruce, are all dead and down. Photogi'aph taken 

 in the Colorado National Forest, Colorado. 



in the utilization of the product. Conservative lumbering, 

 which is the term used by foresters to designate the opposite 

 of wasteful lumbering, will be described more fully later 

 in this study. 



Protection from fire is no less important than protection 

 from wasteful lumbering. Forest fires are very common 

 in this country and cause incalculable destruction to life 



