TREES AND TREE-PLANTING. 
CHAPTER I. 
FOREST DESTRUCTION. 
Effect of Forest Destruction upon a Country.—Effects Produced in 
Europe and Asia.—The Ancient Habitableness of those Regions 
Contrasted with Modern Barrenness and Unproductiveness.—For- 
ests as an Essential to Industry and Comfort.—Dependence of Man- 
kind on Wood.—A Consideration for Future Wants.—Telling Re- 
sults of the Wilful Waste of the Atlantic States Forests.—Manner 
of Meeting the Question of Wholesale Destruction.—System of 
Forest Management in France and Germany.—The Unprotected 
State of American Forests generally.—The Forest Regions of the 
Northwest, and a Suggestion for their Preservation, 
I gave tried for years, in the best way I knew how, to 
get something definite done to save our forests and re- 
plant those destroyed, but the work has been very dis- 
couraging. 
The waste of timber still goes steadily on, especially 
in the Western States, and is each year increasing as the 
forests diminish. Forests are felled, and a man cuts 
down a tree that his own lifetime and that of all his 
children added together could not reproduce, yet he 
thinks no more of his act of vandalism than he would 
if he were removing a stone, a brier, or a dirt-pile. He 
does not cut it down because he needs the fuel or wants 
the lumber, but because it is handy, or because he fancies 
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