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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



forestry, which are true all the world over, with Ameri- 

 can methods of lumbering. The product will be a 

 system of forestr}^ especially adapted to the United 

 States. The foundations of such a system are already 

 laid. 



CONSERyATiyE LUMBERING. 



Something w^as said in the last chapter about the sys- 

 tematic methods of conseryatiye lumbering. AYith the 



Fig. 23.— Logging of great meeliauK al perfection among the Big Trees of 



California. 



gradual understanding and application of these methods 

 by American lumbermen, already well begun, and with 

 the work in the Avoods rightly carried out, there is but 

 one reason Avhy the great majority of the forests now 

 standing in the United States should not in the end 



