OUR FORESTS 



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FORESTRY IN THE UNITED STATES 



What 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 

 cuttings 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. 



