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The National Geographic Magazine

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The National Geographic Magazine

From Gifford Pinchot, Forester

A Mixed Forest in Need of an Improvement Cutting The crooked old chestnut in particular should be removed service now has nearly 300 superior officers and over 10,000 rangers and forest guards. It has charge of about 200,000 square miles of forest, and produces a net revenue, after all expenses have been paid, of about $3,000,000 a year. In addition, the forests furnish to peasant holders of forest rights products whose value is estimated to be considerably- greater than the whole cost of the forest service. About 30,000 square miles are effectively protected against fire, at an average yearly cost of less than half a cent per acre. These admirable results are especially interesting because India- is like the United States in the great

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