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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



October 



on the easy lower slopes. During the 

 past decade, however, with the timber 

 supply of the country at large dwind- 

 ling rapidly under the greatly in- 

 creased demand for saw logs and pulp 

 stock, the lumberman's policy has 



changed and he has returned to the 

 once culled forest and stripped out 

 practically all that was left of the 

 merchantable sorts. In the process of 

 this wholesale cutting much of the 

 uncommercial timber has been de- 







Typical Destruction on the High Slopes Side of Mount Moosilauke. 







