Forests Were Once Deliberately Fired to Improve the Range (Pege 658) 



the steeper hill and mountain sides, the trees, they left a semblance of forest 



which, in their turn, must necessarily behind. 



soon be washed and worn to sterility. With the depletion of the lowland 

 The lumbermen first operated in the forests, they have moved up, through 

 lowlands where the best timber grew the foothills and into the mountains, 

 and logging and transportation were and are now stripping the mountain- 

 cheapest and, cutting only a part of tops and sides of whatever usable tim- 



Fire Follows the Lumberman: While Pine Wreckage in Wisconsin (Page 661) 



