NEW ENGLAND'S FEDERAL FOREST RESERVE 



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Photo by Guy L. Shorey, Gorharn, X. H. 



Slopes of Mount Washington 

 this wellknown mountain is now a part of the white mountain national forest. the 

 valley contains a great amount of timber that can be handled by the government 

 at a profit and there is not much danger of fire 



whole there are very large values. If 

 later the larger trees are removed, 

 when the advance in prices shall enable 

 the Government to take them out at a 

 profit, a second cutting and perhaps a 



third can be taken out from this 

 uncrippled soil, before the burned over 

 area in the neighboring valley will be 

 fit for use. What is more wickedly 

 unmindful of the future than reckless 



