FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
and pass in the public mind as emphati- 
cally under the name of parks as they 
occur to it in the light of financial 
investments. Such, for instance, are 
the Adirondack State Park and sev- 
eral large private forest estates in the 
same region, as well as certain large 
tracts of exceptionally beautiful forest 
in the western part of North Carolina 
and about the head waters of the Mis- 
sissippi, which have now for some time 
attracted wide attention as desirable 
public possessions. 
In such forests as these, esthetic 
considerations might suggest certain 
departures from the ordinary methods 
of forestry. Some people apparently 
wish to go further, and believe that 
certain portions of these tracts should 
remain entirely undisturbed, in order 
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