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FORESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES 
Wuat Forestry Is 
Forestry is the handling of forest land in such a way that it will 
produce repeated crops of timber and will exert to the fullest the bene- 
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FIGURE 16.—Good forestry practice conserves the forests. 
A, Good forestry practice on a national-forest timber area. Only mature trees 
have been cut, young trees having been left to form the basis for future 
euttings and to insure reproduction. Brush and slash are piled for disposal. 
B, No. forestry practiced here. Land cut over and burned. Unless this land 
is artificially reforested, it will probably revert to worthless brush. 
