A PRIMER OF FORESTRY PART II—PRACTICAL FORESTRY

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Table of Contents

Letter of Transmittal

CHAPTER I. THE PRACTICE OF FORESTRY

The service of the forest
The uses of the forest
Four requirements for the best service
The yield of a forest
Silvicultural systems
     Simple coppice
     Stored coppice
     Seed or high forest
     Regular seed forest
     Two-storied seed forest
     Selection forest
     Localized selection
     The group system
     The strip system
     Improvement cuttings

Conservative lumbering
     Conservative lumbering and ordinary lumbering
     Felling the trees
     Swamping and sawing
     Skidding
     Transportation
     At the mills
     Waste in lumbering
Planting

Forests and climate
Effect of forest cover on temperature
Extremes of heat and cold
Moisture in forest air
Evaporation
Rainfall
Fallen rain

Forestry abroad
     The forest in early times
     Modern forestry
          Germany
          France
          Switzerland
          British India
Forestry at home
     The settler and the forest
     First steps in forestry
     The public domain
     Federal forest reserves
     State forestry

PLATE I. Lumbering, A Part of the Practice of Forestry.