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the two summer camps, was opening 

 up and grading the roadbeds for the 

 logging railroads. These roadbeds 

 were cut through the heaviest stands 

 of timber, and it is noteworthy that 

 they required the cutting down of a 

 strip of forest considerably narrower 

 than a wagon road would have in- 

 volved. From 785 acres of these four 

 sections there were cut between Au- 

 gust 8 and November 19 some 16,311,- 

 785 board feet of white and Norway 



injury to the 5 per cent, of seed trees 

 reserved. The area covered by the 

 fires by which the brush and debris 

 were destroyed was only about 7 per 

 cent, of the cut-over land. 



The contractors running the seven 

 winter camps are also doing their cut- 

 ting, hauling, and brush burning un- 

 der the inspection of the Bureau of 

 Forestry. Each of these camps oper- 

 ated over a larger area this season 

 than did the two 1 camps already men- 



Reproduction of Norway Pine on an Old Burnt-Over District in the Minnesota 



National Forest Reserve. 



pine. From all except 100 acres of 

 this area the brush and debris smaller 

 than 8 inches in diameter were cleared 

 and built into compact piles as the 

 logging progressed. These piles were 

 burned between October 28 and De- 

 cember 23. The brush and debris on 

 the remaining 100 acres were piled 

 and will be burned at a suitable time 

 in the spring. So carefully was the 

 burning done that even in and around 

 section 16 it was completed without 



tioned. The timber purchasers have 

 until July, 1908, to finish the cutting 

 and removal of the timber from the 

 sections already sold. Although the 

 regulations for conservative lumber- 

 ing were new to the lumbermen, they 

 have been applied effectively. Not 

 only have the relations between the 

 Bureau officials in charge of the work 

 and the loggers been entirely friend- 

 ly, but a radical change in the atti- 

 tude of the lumber interests of this 



