ILLUSTRATIONS 



OPPOSITE PAGE 



Forest Fire Guard Stationed in a Tree Top Frontispiece 



Section of a Virgin Forest 16 



The Sequoias of California 24 



A Forest Ranger and His Forest Cabin 38 



Pine Which Yields Turpentine and Timber 46 



Forest Fires Destroy Millions of Dollars Worth of Timber Every Year 54 



Blackened Ruins of a Fire Swept Forest 60 



Forest Management Provides for Cutting Mature Trees 76 



Seed Beds in a Forest Nursery 84 



Sowing Forest Seed in an Effort to Grow a New Forest. . . 98 



A Camping Ground in a National Forest 102 



Good Forests Mean Good Hunting and Fishing 106 



Young White Pine Seeded from Adjoining Pine Trees 120 



What Some Kinds of Timber Cutting Do to a Forest 128 



On Poor Soil Trees are More Profitable Than Farm Crops 136 



A Forest Crop on iU Way to the Market 152 



