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THE FORESTER. 



March, 





many years, as a consequence of which best timber over the entire area, does not 



the large timber has been removed from a express the storm's action adequately, for 



very considerable portion, but many thou- not all parts of the area were affected alike, 



sands of acres of the finest Loblolly and Upon thousands of acres the destruction 



Oak were standing at the time of the amounted to practically one hundred per 



storm and the whole area was thicklv cent, of the merchantable timber, which in 



timbered, for the cut-over land is being some cases, notably of pure pine forest, 



renewed by a luxuriant growth either of meant almost every tree. (Fig. i.) The 



Loblolly Pine wholly, or of the former area of greatest damage seems to extend 



mixture of pine and hard woods. from the Peach Creek fork of the San Ja- 



FIELD OF PURE LOBLOLLY PINE TWO MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEW CANEY, MONTGOMERY CO, TEXAS, 

 TIMBER ALL LARGE AND OF FINE QUALITY. TOTALLY DESTROYED BY THE GALVESTON STORM. 



Stated in brief, the effect of the storm 

 was to prostrate at least fifty per cent, of 

 all merchantable pine and oak, and to 

 beat and whip the whole forest into a rag- 

 ged, tangled wilderness through which im- 

 mediately after the storm it was impossible 

 to proceed except on foot, and even after 

 five months only a few main roads are 

 barely passable. 



The estimate of fifty per cent, of the 



cinto River east of New Caney, westward 

 through Montgomery County south of the 

 Santa Fe Railway (Conroes Branch). 

 The writer personally inspected several 

 tracts of uncut timber in this region upon 

 which splendid timber of Loblolly Pine 

 that would cut 10,000 feet to the acre was 

 entirely destroyed. (Fig. 1 and Frontis- 

 piece. ) It was reported that practically all 

 of the heavy oak timber along the fork of 



