Timber Growing and Cutting Practice in the Lodgepole Pine Region: Measures Necessary to Keep Forest Land Productive and Preferred Practice for Obtaini

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Excerpt from Timber Growing and Cutting Practice in the Lodgepole Pine Region: Measures Necessary to Keep Forest Land Productive and Preferred Practice for Obtaining Fuller and More Timber CropsThis the Forest Service has attempted to do in a series of publi cations dealing with the 12 principal forest regions of the United States. The information presented has been gathered from many different sources. An effort has been made to bring together all that any agency has yet learned or demonstrated about the growing of timber, and the results have been verified as far as possible by consultation with the forest industries, State foresters, and forest schools. These publications thus undertake to set forth, in a simple form, what are believed to be the soundest methods of reforestation as yet developed in our common experience and study in the United States.The Forest Service claims no finality for the measures proposed. In every country forestry has come about through a gradual evolu tion. Much is still to be learned about growing timber under Ameri can conditions. As time goes on, research and practical experience will add greatly to the success and certainty of the measures carried out in our woods, just as American agriculture and manufacturing processes have been perfected through experience and study. But we know enough about growing timber to go right ahead. Believing that the forest owners of the United States are ready to engage in timber growing on a large scale, the Forest Service has endeavored to place before them in concise terms the best suggestions and guides which the experience of this country to date affords.In these publications the measures proposed for a particular forest region have been arranged in two general groups. The first includes the first steps in forestry, or the minimum requirements of local physical conditions, to prevent timberland from becoming barren. These measures, in which the prevention of fire is of out standing importance, represent, broadly speaking, the least that must be done to keep forest lands productive. As Mr. Thompson points out, even these very simple things will bring back good stands of timber on many of the forest lands in the lodgepole pine region. By and large, however, they will seldom satisfy the land owner who wishes to make the most out of his property in timber culture. They represent rather the dividing line between keeping land in forest of some sort and allowing it to revert to a barren, treeless condition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.