FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



the regions naturally penetrate into one 

 another and overlap, on account of the 

 manner in which forests have extended 

 their bounds. 



In the basin of the Great Lakes, 

 where the glaciers of a recent geologi- 

 cal age have prepared a light, loose, 

 gravelly or sandy soil, the white pine 

 belt extends through the States of Min- 

 nesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and 

 penetrates into portions of Pennsyl- 

 vania, 'New York, and New England. 

 Once covered with dense tall forests 

 of white pine, interspersed in places 

 with other northern conifers, or broken 

 by smaller areas of broadleaf forests, 

 the white pine belt has now yielded 

 to us its richest treasures. The exact- 

 ing demands of our modern artificial 

 civilization have drawn ceaselessly upon 

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