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Show 34. one) the average man thinks of in connection with servation is the forests. The forests Of all the world's timber lands the the United States Rise emphatically says that probably million square miles in the world timber, lying valuable for in the growth, so temperate is blessed With soft wood, valuable so he so an not less than four trillion example of the was no area crowded of three so The United of the United States timber. fifty eight hundred Now we shows the have with billion £eet our most crying OF THAT WONDERThe original forests, their orig and their remnants: KDIDS FORESTS con million acres, FULLY RICH HERITAGE NOT OVER mTE-IIA.LF REtrAIN'S. inal extent EXTENT OF WOOD : ORIGIlrAL : BD.FT. ACRES : PRESENT ACRES :(millions):(millions):(millions) . Northern : Chiefly . . 150 1,000,000: 90 280 1,400: 130 220 1,000,000: 150 110 400,000: 100 1,400,000: 80 :White Pine: Central Southern Rocky . . Hardwood : :Coniferous: :Yellow Pine: Mt.:Coifervs: :Ye Pacific ow J.ne: :Pines,Firs: Spruces : states, favorable to coniferous need of conservation. following table much in construction. tained at least eight hundred saw in unparalleled abundance of original forests of merchantable of President Van many purposes. zone, all-important. original forest aeeond to none. was are con- 90 . . |
