FOEEST TREES AND FOREST SCEISTERY 



more of the flavor of wildness than do 

 those of the East, though they likewise 

 show many evidences of the hand of 

 man. It is true that paths and roads 

 lead from many familiar resorts into 

 these mountain forests, that there are 

 signs of the lumber industry and of 

 fires, and that there are large barren 

 areas where sheep have been contin- 

 uously driven for pasture. Extensive 

 as this interference with original condi- 

 tions has been, however, the changed 

 aspect of the forest has not always 

 remained permanent, because nature, 

 where it is possible, comes back pa- 

 tiently to restore life and beauty to the 

 wasted places. Over lofty ranges and 

 in inaccessible places we may still find 

 the original forest bequeathed to us 

 from early days ; but not in such places 



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