American Forestry 



VOL. XXI 



MAY, 1915 



No. 5 



THE GREAT WAR AND GERMAN 



FORESTS 



By Poultney Bigelow. M. A., F. R. G. S. 

 Late Lecturer on "National Expansion" in the Law Department of Boston University 



[The noted author of this article said in a letter accompanying it: "In general it's my 

 private opinion that Belgium will not have wood enough left for toothpicks when the war is over; 

 for it's no joke to warm a million men round the bivouac fire on successive cold nights; and as you 

 know, soldiers in the enemy's country are apt to be careless! Even WE were such in the civil 

 war!" Editor.] 



THE Editor of American Fores- 

 try pays me the compliment of 

 calling upon me for a contribu- 

 tion that shall include the 

 Great War and its effect on forests 



another way of saying that men and 

 trees live for one another; and no tree 

 can suffer without an injury to mankind. 

 Forests were the foundations of 

 German greatness. Need I recall ele- 



Large Silver Fir and Regeneration of Same Species 



IN THIS FOREST ONLY THE CROOKED AND DEFECTIVE TREES HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN. 

 WILL BE REMOVED IN TEN YEARS. BADENWEILER, SCHWARTZWALD- 



THE PRESENT OVER STANDARDS 

 -BADEN, GERMANY 



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