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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Photograph by C. IV. Armstrong 



BLACK FOREST SHADOWS 



A typical bit of the famous Schwartzwald showing a group of 

 German foresters and a number of visiting American foresters. 



realizing upon their natural and human re- 

 sources. The Black Forest became a living 

 business enterprise, representing several hun- 

 dred million dollars of invested 

 capital from which a life-giving 

 revenue was required. Plans 

 of cutting and regeneration 

 were introduced and followed 

 to the letter, and an era of con- 

 structive forestry was brought 

 into co-ordination with the long 

 practiced lumbering operations. 

 But great as the timber 

 wealth was, another asset was 

 soon to be developed in the 

 warm medicinal springs which 

 flowed from the northern mar- 

 gins of the hill areas. In fact 

 the name of Baden suggests the 

 kingdom's chief attraction 

 from a commercial standpoint. 

 Baden-Baden, Baden-Oos, Ba- 

 den-This and That, all have 

 become famous watering places 



for the wealthy and afflicted of every nation. And in order that 

 these visitors should not tire of the confinements of health re- 

 sorts the wise authorities opened ways for them back into the 

 hills by con- 

 structing 

 highways of 

 rock into 

 every beauti- 

 ful ravine 

 and over 

 each wind- 

 swept sum- 

 mit. This 

 made the 

 timber read- 

 ily accessible 

 and did away 

 with the need 

 for drivable 

 streams with 

 their burden 

 of upkeep, so 

 that it be- 

 c a m e quite 

 the thing for 

 nimble pleas- 

 ure automo- 

 biles to dash 

 along the 

 roads, honk- 

 ing in deri- 

 sion as they 

 passed the 

 more digni- 

 fied log-laden , , , ,. ,., . 



rhotograph by C. M'. Armstrong 



"^^S'^ ^^'^ ^" WATERFALLS IN BLACK FOREST 



One of the numerous waterfalls which were such an attraction 

 foresters *" *^^ thousands of tourists who before the war were yearly 

 visitors to the Schwartzwald. 



Photograph by C. IV. Armstrong 



OLDEN TIME METHOD OF LOGGING 

 This photograph illustrates the method of logging during the first half of the eighteenth century in the 



Black Forest of Germany. 



