Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This book on forest protection is being printed, pre-eminently, for the benefit of the students attending the Biltmore Forest School. In American forestry, the most important duty of the forester consists in the suppression of forest fires. If forest fires were prevented, a second growth would follow invariably in the wake of a first growth removed by the forester or by the lumberman; and the problem of forest conservation would solve itself. If forest fires were prevented, a second growth would have a definite, prospective value; and it would be worth while to treat it sylviculturally. If forest fires were prevented, our investments made in merchantable timber would be more secure; and there would be a lesser inducement for the rapid conversion of timber into cash. The issue of forest fires stand paramount in all forest protection. Compared with this issue, the other topics treated in the following pages dwindle down to insignificance. I write this with a knowledge of the fact that the leading timber firms in this country place an estimate of less than 1% on their annual losses of timber due to fires: These firms are operating close to their holdings; and if a tract is killed by fire the operations are swung over into the burned section as speedily as possible; and the salvage may amount to 99% of the timber burned. These firms do not pay any attention, in their estimate, to the lucrima cessans, nor to the prospective value of inferior trees, poles, saplings and seedlings. The prospective forest is the forest of the future; and this forest is annihilated by the fires. Merchantable trees of immediate value cannot be killed any more dead by fires, norby insects, norby strom, than by the legitimate use of axe and saw. Where the means of transportation are ready, the damage inflicted upon the forest and upon its owner by catastrophies may be reduced to a minimu
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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