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id: 17645
author: Egleston, Nathaniel Hillyer
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  AUTHOR OF "HAND-BOOK OF TREE-PLANTING," ETC. AUTHOR OF "HAND-BOOK OF TREE-PLANTING," ETC. conservation of our forests and the planting of trees." Arbor Day is 700,000 acres of trees in that state planted by human hands. schools were invited to unite in its observance, and instead of trees Readings for Arbor Day. ABOUT TREES. From the originator of Arbor Day. A tree is the perfection in strength, beauty, and usefulness of Leaves, like other parts of the plant or tree, are composed of cells carried from the leaves to all parts of the plant or tree, to nourish As the season for Arbor Day and tree-planting comes on, just before For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that as he has done, but the work of the man who plants trees Plant in the spring-time the beautiful trees, Oh, happy trees which we plant to-day,

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  Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information


id: 18680
author: Allen, E. T. (Edward Tyson)
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  Certainly we cannot expect the timber owner to protect our forest annually on land value only, deferring taxation of forest growth extent devote land to forest that will grow food crops at all well. Assuming rate of timber growth to be equal, present fire and tax The seed tree problem in such a pine forest and under such a system seed-bed and prefers the natural forest floor to burned-over land. Grow Young Trees for Forest Planting." increasing area of cut and burned over forest land which is not on the land value alone, and the timber crop should be taxed when owner to protect and keep productive under forest those lands suitable Taxes on forest land should be levied on the crop when cut, not holding of forest land for a second crop of timber is impracticable question of holding cut-over forest land for a second crop is of

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  Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods


id: 31367
title: The Training of a Forester
author: Pinchot, Gifford
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  The United States Forest Service is responsible both for the general The United States Forest Service consists, first, of a protective force The work of a Forest Ranger is, first of all, to protect the District are the preparation of working plans for the use of the forest by On many of the National Forests the need for immediate use of the timber understanding which a Forester must have with the men who use, or work "practical" men with whom the Forester must do his work--lumbermen, The publications of the United States Forest Service include by far the The office work needed in the mapping of the National Forests, with technical men in charge of practical forestry on the National Forests. work of forest organization in the Government Service in the United best fit him for the work of a Forester in the United States. of the practice of forestry in National and State Forests everywhere.


id: 23029
title: Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
author: nan
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  birds thereof, and also for planting forest trees. [Illustration: "THE OLD BEECH TREE," OHIO UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ATHENS, We plant the tree for the dear birds'' sakes, (Here may be introduced groups of the charming flower songs by Mrs. Gaynor, bird songs by Nevin, simple folk dances, and appropriate Spring (Exit, first the Birds, then the Trees, the flowers, the School little ones kept the old birds more than busy, early and late, feeding And blue birds sing low of nests in the trees. some time in the season, this bird has its nesting haunts at the very that the old bird tolled the young from the nest as soon as they were Do you know the same God made the birds and the boys, When a fellow knows every bird''s nest known them to nest in boxes in shade-trees and in bird-houses under the


id: 11587
title: The School Book of Forestry
author: Pack, Charles Lathrop
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  Forest Fires Destroy Millions of Dollars Worth of Timber Every Year Forest Management Provides for Cutting Mature Trees The trees of the forest grow by forming new layers of wood forester who sets out trees tries to provide conditions which The power of the trees and forest soil to absorb water regulates IMPORTANT FOREST TREES AND THEIR USES IMPORTANT FOREST TREES AND THEIR USES beautiful trees of the forest, produce lumber which is suitable hold contracts to cut timber in the National Forest are required Forest insects and tree diseases occasion heavy losses each year constantly at work in the forests injuring or killing live trees protect the forest and insure a future crop of trees on the area. log the timber and load the lumber directly from the forests to The timber in the Tongass National Forest runs 60 per cent. planting between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 young forest trees a


id: 35419
title: Wood and Forest
author: Noyes, William
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  identification of woods which appears in Forest Service Bulletin No. 10, _Timber_, by Filibert Roth. Also, the terms used by lumbermen, "hard woods" for broad-leaved trees In a transverse section of a conifer, for example Douglas spruce, Fig. 8, the wood is seen to lie in concentric rings, the outer part of the In a cross-section, say of oak, Fig. 14, it can readily be seen that some pith rays begin at the center the tree, as the cambium cells form new wood each year. Cross-section of Non-porous Wood, White Pine, Cross-section of Ring-porous Wood, White Ash, distinguish such ring-porous woods as have large prominent pores, like and, in regular grained wood like pine, because the cells are radially color, sap-wood, nearly white; non-porous; rings, fine but distinct; non-porous; rings summer wood broad, dark; grain, straight; rays, sap-wood whitish; non-porous; rings, distinct; grain, straight; rays, Since by far the greater number of timber trees grow in the forest, in


id: 37595
title: Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota
author: Ream, Robert R.
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  of Deer Killed by Wolves in Northeastern Minnesota Usually deer are run down from behind, the wolf or wolves biting at _Table 7.--Kill rate of deer by radiotagged wolves and their associates_ two packs of three wolves (one deer per 12 days per wolf). AN ANALYSIS OF THE AGE, SEX, AND CONDITION OF DEER KILLED BY WOLVES IN [Illustration: _Figure 4.--As many wolf-killed deer as possible were _Table 3.--Sex ratios of wolf-killed deer from wilderness areas Wolf-killed deer in our sample, with an average age of 4.7 years, were wolf-killed deer might differ from that of the actual population, we _Table 4.--Age and sex distribution of deer killed by wolves Condition of Wolf-Killed Deer In conclusion, our data on both age and condition of wolf-killed deer The above observations of snow conditions, deer movements, and wolf the winter most of the deer killed by wolves in our study area were not


id: 37359
title: Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12
author: Knapp, Frederick Malcolm
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  truck type of motor vehicle with trailer adapted to carrying logs, and The principal methods of transporting logs are by rail, by motor truck Many truck operators now hauling over good roads who are general types of solid rubber tires in use on the logging truck: the universal use in motor truck logging operations. The question of the kind of road for hauling logs with the motor truck in and day out unless there are good roads, and no motor truck operation The big handicap in motor truck logging in the past has been poor roads. [Illustration: Sub-grade for motor truck logging road.] not pay to put in a railroad but where a good type of motor truck road [Illustration: The most common type of motor truck logging road--a [Illustration: Loading a motor truck and trailer through the use of a Road Construction for Motor Trucks.


id: 42391
author: Boerker, Richard H. D. (Richard Hans Douai)
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  Government, the land and the timber is returned to the National Forest National Forests have on them large areas of steep mountain slopes the fiscal year 1917 timber sales on the National Forests the sale and cutting of timber on the National Forests and coöperates with States in protecting forest lands under Section 2 of the Weeks Law. The Branch of Research has supervision over the investigative work of arise on the National Forests such as cases of timber, fire, and grazing National Forest lands which are capable of producing timber and valuable on National Forest lands without permit; grazing stock on areas which use of National Forest land without a permit for any purpose for which timber cut on the National Forests. When timber on National Forest land is cut, damaged, killed, or other stock grazed on National Forest land under permit. of the season during which the stock use National Forest lands.

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  Our National Forests A Short Popular Account of the Work of the United States Forest Service on the National Forests


id: 45032
title: The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties First Edition
author: Snow, Charles H. (Charles Henry)
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  States are the species known popularly as pine, fir, oak, hickory, The broad, flat leaves of trees such as oaks and chestnuts The oaks, elms, maples, and other so-called hard woods are of trees for ornamental purposes, but Americans value them for wood. separate the woods into white and black ash, the former including the Trunks of trees affording these woods are generally small and the same tree might at one time afford white and at another red wood. [Footnote 45: Three of the four United States species are trees; the Tulip Tree, Whitewood, Yellow Poplar (local and common names). White Pine Tree (_P. The Sugar Pine (_Pinus lambertiana_) of the Western States is a tree Light, soft, easily worked, resembles white pine (_Pinus strobus_). Heartwood light brown or red, thick sapwood yellow to nearly white. Wood, used similarly to black spruce, is substituted for white pine.


id: 62686
title: Forestry for Farmers
author: Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard)
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  No trees grow to the best advantage in very dry or very wet soil, available to the roots--that is the soil on which all trees grow most development of the tree, namely, with reference to soil conditions, Favorable soil conditions, then, require shade, while wood growth is Like the wheat or corn plant, the tree seed require as conditions for Hence, in forest planting, trees are placed and kept for some time because form development and soil conditions require shade, the total crop shows at 100 years a close cover, with hardly 300 trees to the keep the soil open, until it is shaded by the young trees, which may Besides reproducing a wood crop from the seed of mother trees or by amount of wood growth in the most desirable form of which the soil and the branch growth of those trees which are to become timber wood is


