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THE FORESTER. 



October, 



ment received for the redwood forests. 

 One average redwood tree from the Cali- 

 fornia forest will yield more timber than 

 any acre of forest in Prussia. With all 

 these facts in sight, our government should 

 withdraw from sale every acre of timber 

 land unsold; and, cared for by the Bureau 



We have some most striking compari- 

 sons, showing the value of forest covering 

 for the conservation of water. The San 

 Gabriel River Basin watershed with an 

 area of about 23 square miles delivered 

 less than 100 miners' inches during the 

 dry months of 1900, while the San An- 



FIG. 4. SHOWING SPRUCE AND PINE FOREST THAT FORMERLY COVERED THE ENTIRE 



AREA SHOWN IN FIG. 3. TREES DESTROYED BY RECKLESS CUTTING 



AND REPEATED FIRES ; AT PRESENT ONLY A FEW LEFT 



IN PROTECTED OR INACCESSIBLE PLACES. 



of Forestry and the trees milled as they tonio, with one-half the area, produced 

 mature, the profits would go far toward 175 miners' inches at the minimum, 

 the rebuilding of our devastated areas. These basins are contiguous in the same 





