. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 THE GJLTIJLJDJL ^IJMBKKlILZlJLM June, 1895 THE GREATEST FOREST IN THE WORLD. "lifHERE is the greatest forest in the world? "™ The question was asked in the Forestry section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its recent annual meeting. The importance of forests for equalizing the climate and the rainfall of the globe was under discussion, and the purpose of the ques- tion was to show where the great forest tracts of the wor
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 THE GJLTIJLJDJL ^IJMBKKlILZlJLM June, 1895 THE GREATEST FOREST IN THE WORLD. "lifHERE is the greatest forest in the world? "™ The question was asked in the Forestry section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its recent annual meeting. The importance of forests for equalizing the climate and the rainfall of the globe was under discussion, and the purpose of the ques- tion was to show where the great forest tracts of the world are situated. One member replying offhand, was inclined to main- tain that the greatest continuous tract of the forest lies north of the St. Lawrence river, in the provinces of Que- bec and Ontario, extending northward to Hudson's Bay and Labrador ; a region measuring about 1,700 miles in length from east to west, and 1,000 miles in width north and south. A professor from the Smithsonian Institute rejoined that a much larger continuous area of timber lands was to be found, reckoning from those in the State of Wash- ington, northward through British Columbia and Alaska. But he limited his statement to North America, for he added, that, in his opinion, the largest forest in the world occupied the valley of the Amazon, embracing much of Northern Brazil, Eastern Peru, Boliva, Ecuador, Columbia and Guiana ; a region at least 2,100 miles in length by 1,300 in breadth. Exceptions were immediately taken to this statement by several members who, in the light of recent explora- tions, have computed the forest of Central Africa in the valley of the Congo, including the headwaters of the Nile to the northeast and those of Zambesi on the south. According to their estimates Central America contains a forest region not less than 3,000 miles in length from north to south, and of vast, although not fully known, width from east to west. Discussion, in which the evidence afforded by travels
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