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INDEX 



Laws dealing with forest fires, 4 

 Leaf litter, 69 

 L'Estgrel. forest of, 233 



topography of, 2S4 

 Legislation against deforestation, 316 



abuses led to, 221 



reference to, 268 



summary of, 142, 261 

 Levier, statistics for, 62 

 Light burning never permitted, 284 

 Logging and cutting rules, 297 



equipment and sawmills, 343 



railways, 346 

 Loire river valley, 12 



watershed, 18 

 Long-term sale, example of, 301 

 Lozgre, Avejrron, and Corrfize, sowing in 



the, 137 

 Lumbering, strategy in miUtary, 342 

 Liunber grades, French, 310 



manufacture, 15 



shortage, handicap of, 16 



prices paid for manufactiured, 304 



transportation of, 342 



winning the war with, 349 

 Lumberjacks as road builders, 339 

 Lumberjack units, the organization of, 

 339 



Malmifait, forest of, working plan, 105, 



112 

 Management, areas and systems of, 316 

 divisions, 225 ' 



objects of, 186 

 statistics, 54 

 subdivisions, 225 

 Manufactured lumber, prices paid for, 304 

 Maps issued for each State forest, 293 

 Maram grass, sand planted to, 178 

 Maritime pine, clear cutting of, 72 

 during improvement felling, 194 

 forests, management of, 186 

 forests, working plan for, 192 

 method of sowing, 182 

 shelterwood for, 78 

 yield of, 202 

 Martin, Doctor, of Tharandt, xiii 

 Mathieu, investigations by, at Nancy, 19 

 Maures and I'Est^rel, 261, 262 

 Measure, units of, xvii, 207 

 units of, American, 48 



Mensuration in working plans, 206 

 Meter, legal cubic, 207 

 Method, hole-selection, 88 



rule-of-thimib, 211 

 Methods used to stop erosion, 165 

 MiUtary rank, 274 

 Mill cuts, daily and monthly, 349 

 Minor products, 277, 278 

 Montargis, forest of, conservation in the, 



102 

 MonlHle-Marsan inspection, 202, 203 

 Mont Dore (Puy-de-D6me), 151 

 Mont-Gen6vre, forest of, 36 

 Motor trucks and caterpillars, 346 

 Moudon, forest of, 379 

 Mountain floods, efforts to check, 8 



lands, 263 



pine, where sown, 165 

 Motmtains, control of erosion in, 140 



divided iato zones, 31 



Names of reserves, -95 

 Nancy forest school, 66, 95 

 Natural regeneration, 65 



vegetation, 148 

 Noirfimont (Jura), fir forest of, 81 

 Nurseries at high altitudes, 123 



fixed local, 122 



flying, 122 



location of, 122 



permanent or central, 122 



two sample, 124 

 Nursery practice, 123 



Oak and beech forests, well-managed, 14 

 -beech stands in northeast of France, 

 98 



shelterwood for, 76 

 clear cutting, 71 

 cork, 41, 395 

 hohn, 41, 394 

 management of, 469 

 ofiScial price for, 311 

 pedunculate, 40, 387 

 sessile, 40, 389 



coppice of, 92 

 shelterwood cuttings in, 73 

 standards, space for, 95 

 sprouting longevity, 92 

 volume of, 331 

 Oaks, the timber, 40 



