The Forests in Early Days 



GREAT forests once covered most of North 

 America. In Canada they stretched unbroken 

 from coast to coast. In our own country they 

 reached from the Atlantic on the East to the 

 Middle West. The Middle West itself was, in 

 great part, a vast plain where forests then, as 

 now, were almost unknown. The region of the 

 Rocky Mountains was forest-clad, and the 

 Pacific Coast was thickly wooded. This prime- 

 val woodland of ours was the finest in the whole 



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