Forestry Abroad and at Home 



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From Gifford Pinchot, Forester 



A Mixed Forest After an Improvement Cutting 



extent and variety of her forests and in 

 the number and fierceness of forest fires. 



FORESTRY AT HOME 



The forests of the United States cover 

 an area of about 699,500,000 acres, or 

 more than 35 per cent of the surface of 

 the country. Before so large a part of 

 them was destroyed they were perhaps 



the richest on the earth, and with proper 

 care they are capable of being so again. 

 Their power of reproduction is exceed- 

 ingly good. 



In the northeastern states and as far 

 west as Minnesota once stretched the 

 great white-pine forest from which, 

 since settlement began, the greater part 

 of our lumber has come. South of it, 



