. Principles of American forestry . Forests and forestry. FOREST PROTECTION. 147 On account of this great danger to pine timber, and on account of high taxes, the lumbermen have been dis- couraged from holding their pine lands for a second growth, but prefer to cut every tree that can be made into salable lumber and then abandon the land. But even under such conditions, it occasionally happens that the land is not burned over, or only slightly burned, for ^t.^'^:imkm^.. â â¢â¢â¢â vV.'.i,!: Fig. .54.âAgaricus melleus, a fungus that is occasionally very in- jurious to trees by destroying their r
. Principles of American forestry . Forests and forestry. FOREST PROTECTION. 147 On account of this great danger to pine timber, and on account of high taxes, the lumbermen have been dis- couraged from holding their pine lands for a second growth, but prefer to cut every tree that can be made into salable lumber and then abandon the land. But even under such conditions, it occasionally happens that the land is not burned over, or only slightly burned, for ^t.^'^:imkm^.. â â¢â¢â¢â vV.'.i,!: Fig. .54.âAgaricus melleus, a fungus that is occasionally very in- jurious to trees by destroying their roots. A, A fruiting portion of the fungus. a number of years, when it will generally produce a good second cutting. Some land in Minnesota that was first cut in the early days of the logging industry, when it was customary to cut nothing but that which would make a ten-inch log, have been logged two or three times since, and with a good profit. In Minnesota and Wisconsin fires render most of the cut-over lands entirely non-productive, and since the annual increase of the trees that should grow on such. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Green, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowdlear), 1859-1910. New York, J. Wiley & Sons
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