. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. of the high forest type. Oak and beech are the important species. Along with the conversion, and distinct from the "reproduction cuttings," goes a systematic series of thinnings, made with the object of keeping the stand always at its maximum of development as to both quantity and quality. It is here that American foresters can profitably study French methods, for when it becomes economically possible in our country systematic- ally to conduct thinni
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. of the high forest type. Oak and beech are the important species. Along with the conversion, and distinct from the "reproduction cuttings," goes a systematic series of thinnings, made with the object of keeping the stand always at its maximum of development as to both quantity and quality. It is here that American foresters can profitably study French methods, for when it becomes economically possible in our country systematic- ally to conduct thinnings, we can well use the procedure of France as a guide. There are broadly two general ways of mak- ing thinnings. One, supposedly more favored in Germany, is to remove the smaller sized trees that fall into the classes termed by for- esters "suppressed," "intermediate" and "co- ; This method regards the forest from below, as it were, and theoretically at any rate removes in systematic order the individuals of the classes named. It is called in French all sorts of local modifications to the French as there are to the German method. In speaking of the application of the French method of making thinnings in the forests of the United States it is of course to be under- stood that such work would be strictly limited by local economic conditions. In France, as eisewhere in Europe, the relatively small area of the country and the dense population in the proximity of the forests, make for ready mar- kets for almost all classes and sizes of wood. This in turn leads to permanent roads, the divi- sion of the forest into small compartments, the ability to remove at a profit even a few trees from a given locality, and the like. Few for- ests in the United States as yet have approached to anything like what in France is the normal condition. But from the very fact that it is easier to simplify than to build up, the methods used under the intensive trea
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