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CHAPTER I 
Woods, Forests, & 
Forestry in 
Ancient & Modern Times 
ONE has only to search back far enough in 
order to arrive at a time when the greater 
portion of the globe still bore its natural cover- 
ing of primeval forest in some shape or another. 
Except where the growth of trees was physically 
impossible, either through the intense rigour of 
arctic cold or the extreme aridity of tropical 
and subtropical deserts, the early dawn of man’s 
dominion over all the beasts of the earth must 
have found the habitable portion of the earth’s 
surface clad with tree-forest, varying in its 
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