FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



suggest neither forestry proper, nor 

 landscape forestry, nor even land- 

 scape art. In them nature speaks for 

 herself. The tasteful and well judged 

 construction of roads and trails that 

 shall be in harmony with the scenes 

 through which they pass, or, better 

 still, that shall be as unobtrusive as 

 possible, is evidently a necessity if the 

 parks are to be enjoyed by large num- 

 bers of people. In exceptional cases 

 the ax may be needed for the very 

 preservation of the forest. But the 

 principal care should be to protect 

 these forests from fire, defacement, 

 and spoliation. For to us and future 

 generations the parks stand, above 

 all, as examples of the glory of our 

 primeval forests. 



The groves of big trees in the na- 

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