ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Map of "West Virginia showing Virgin and Cut-over Forest Areas. 

 (In envelope accompanying Report.) 



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Native Balsam Fir Tree G-rowing in Canaan Valley, Tucker 



County Frontispiece. 



Scene on the Little Biackwater River 4 



Characteristic View in West Virginia Spruce Belt, Webster 



County 12 



Softwood Band Saw Mill of Babcock Lumber & Boom Com- 

 pany at Davis, Tucker County 20 



Logs Drifting on the Monongahela River at Morgantown . . 28 

 Camp of Collecting Party at Cranberry Glades, Pocahontas 



County 36 



Nest of Veery, Found on Moss-covered Log spanning Big 



Run, Pendleton County 44 



Fire-killed Timber on Mountain Slope, near Head of Buck- 



hannon River 52 



Logs Cut on Right-of-way for Lumber Railroad 60 



Grade for a Lumber Railroad near Head of Cranberry River 68 

 Plant of Warn Lumber Company, near Seebert, Pocahontas 



County 76 



Balsam Firs killed by Recent Forest Fires, Tucker County 84 



White Pine Killed in 1892 by Southern Bark Beetles , 92 



Destruction of Vegetation and Soil by Fires Following Lum- 

 ber Operations, near Davis, Tucker County 100 



An Open Woodlot in Berkeley County 108 



Locust Grove in the Shenandoah Valley, near Martinsburg. 116 

 Spruce Trees Growing on Border of Burnt Lands on Spruce 



Mountain 124 



Log Rafts on Elk River, near Charleston 132 



