Good and Bad Lumbering 



Top. — A National Forest timber sale. On this area in the 

 Black Hills National Forest, S. Dak., only the mature 

 trees have been removed, the stumps have been cut 

 close to the ground, and the brush resulting from lum- 

 bering operations has been piled preparatory to burning 

 as a means of reducing the fire danger. A young growth 

 of trees will soon come in to complete the protective cover. 



Bottom. — What happens when the forest goes. This slope, 

 on the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, was formerly 

 forested. It is now being rapidly washed away as a result 

 of destructive lumbering and overgrazing prior to the 

 creation of the National Forest. The eroded gullies are 

 from 1 to 20 feet wide and from 6 to 1 5 feet deep. Note 

 their size in comparison with that of the man on the left of 

 the picture. 



