. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. RESULTS OP FOREST FIRES. 51 \icli licli, scies ot tana- Ltbe [facts j'alile uWy I the simple means which have been described, a clothing of vegetation ia •speedily furnished to the burned district; the nnsightliness of its appearance is thus removed, abundant supplies of food are furnished to a great variety of animals, and the fertility of the soil is pre
. The geology of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, or, Acadian geology [microform]. Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Paleontology; Geology, Economic; Géologie; Géologie stratigraphique; Paléontologie; Géologie économique. RESULTS OP FOREST FIRES. 51 \icli licli, scies ot tana- Ltbe [facts j'alile uWy I the simple means which have been described, a clothing of vegetation ia •speedily furnished to the burned district; the nnsightliness of its appearance is thus removed, abundant supplies of food are furnished to a great variety of animals, and the fertility of the soil is preserved, until a new forest has time to overspread it. With the smaller plants which first cover n burned district great numbers of seedling trees spring up, and these, though fur a few years not very conspicuous, eventually overtoj) and, if numerous, suffocate the humbler vegetation. Many of these young trees are of the species which composed the original wood, but the majority arc usually different from the former occupants of the soil. The original forest may have consisted of Avhitc or red i)inc; black, white, or hemlock spruce; maple, beech, black or yellow birch, or of other trees of large dimensions, and capable of attaining to a great age. The "second growth" which succeeds these usually consists of poplar, white or poplar birch, wild cheiTy, balsam fir, scrub pine, alder, and other trees of small stature, and usually of rapid growth, which, in good soils, prepare tlic Avay for the larger forest trees, and occupy permanently only the less fertile soils. A few examples will show the contrast which thus appears between the primeval forest and that which succeeds it after a fire. Near the town of Pictou, woods chiefly consisting of beech, maple, and hemlock, have been succeeded by Avhitc birch and firs. A clearing in woods of maple and beech in New Annan, at one time iider cultivation, was, after thirty years, observed to be thickly cnvered with jjojdars th
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