Forestry Abroad 



and at Home 



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From Gifford Pinchot, Forester 



Wasteful Lumbering on the Pacific Slope 

 Note the height of the stump 



from the Rocky Mountain forest by the 

 interior deserts, the Pacific Coast forest 

 covers the flanks of the Sierras, the 

 Cascades, and the coast ranges. Its 

 largest trees are the giant sequoia and 

 the great coast redwood, and its most 

 important timber is the fir. 



The forests of the Philippine Islands 

 cover an area of more than 40,000,000 

 acres. Their timbers, almost wholly 

 different from those of the United States, 

 are exceedingly valuable, both as cabi- 

 net woods and as construction timber. 

 An efficient forest service was organ- 



