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The National Geographic Magazine 



From Gifford Pinchot, Forester 



Conservative Lumbering in the Adirondack Mountains, New York 

 Note the height of the stump 



in a broad belt along the Atlantic and 

 the Gulf coasts, lies the southern pine 

 forests, whose most important tree, both 

 for lumber and naval stores, is the south- 

 ern yellow pine. In the Mississippi 

 Valley lies the interior hardwood forest 

 of oaks, hickories, ashes, gums, and 



other hardwood trees. It is bordered 

 on the west by the plains, which cover 

 the eastern slope of the continental 

 divide until they meet the evergreen 

 Rocky Mountain forest, which clothes 

 the slopes of this great range from the 

 Canadian line to Mexico. Separated 



