. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. 28 A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. much more conspicuous, and the smaller the region the more noticeable often is its effect, because the contrast is more striking. Thus it is frequently easy to see the difference between the trees in a swami) and those on a dry hillside near by, when it would be far less easy to distinguish the general character of the forest which includes both swamp and hillside from that of another. Fig. 25.—Cypress in a hollow. Pine on the slightly higher land near by. Wet weather spring, Southern Georgia. forest at a distance. (Se
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. 28 A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. much more conspicuous, and the smaller the region the more noticeable often is its effect, because the contrast is more striking. Thus it is frequently easy to see the difference between the trees in a swami) and those on a dry hillside near by, when it would be far less easy to distinguish the general character of the forest which includes both swamp and hillside from that of another. Fig. 25.—Cypress in a hollow. Pine on the slightly higher land near by. Wet weather spring, Southern Georgia. forest at a distance. (See fig. 25.) In many instances the demand for water controls distribution altogether. For this reason the forests on the opposite sides of mountain ranges are often composed of entirely differ- ent trees. On the west slope of the Sierra Nevada of California, for example, where there is plenty of moisture, there is also one of the most beautifull of all forests. (See fig. 20 and PI. XIII.) The east. 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 United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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