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The National Geographic Magazine

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 exceedingly 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,

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