FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



and pass in the public mind as emphati- 

 cally under the name of parks as they 

 occur to it in the light of financial 

 investments. Such, for instance, are 

 the Adirondack State Park and sev- 

 eral large private forest estates in the 

 same region, as well as certain large 

 tracts of exceptionally beautiful forest 

 in the western part of North Carolina 

 and about the head waters of the Mis- 

 sissippi, which have now for some tune 

 attracted wide attention as desirable 

 public possessions. 



In such forests as these, esthetic 

 considerations might suggest certain 

 departures from the ordinary methods 

 of forestry. Some people apparently 

 wish to go further, and believe that 

 certain portions of these tracts should 

 remain entirely undisturbed, in order 

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