. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. DESTRUCTIVE LUMBERI>G. 65 was chosen, not because it represents the most common type of natural forest, but because it illustrates better than any other the life and progress of forest growth. (See PI. XXXIII.) The wood of a tree which dies in the forest is almost wholly wasted. For a time the rotting trunk may serve to retain moisture, but there is little use for the carbon, oxygen, and Iiydro- gen which make up its greater part. The mineral constituents alone form a useful fertilizer, but most often there is al- ready an abundance of simi
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. DESTRUCTIVE LUMBERI>G. 65 was chosen, not because it represents the most common type of natural forest, but because it illustrates better than any other the life and progress of forest growth. (See PI. XXXIII.) The wood of a tree which dies in the forest is almost wholly wasted. For a time the rotting trunk may serve to retain moisture, but there is little use for the carbon, oxygen, and Iiydro- gen which make up its greater part. The mineral constituents alone form a useful fertilizer, but most often there is al- ready an abundance of similar material in the soil. Xot only is the old tree lost, but ever since its ma- turity it has done lit- tle more than intercept, to no good purpose, the light which would otherwise have given vitality to a valuable crop of younger trees. It is only when the ripe wood is harvested properly and in time that the forest attains its hio'hest I'lti. OU.—Liiiiiliercil ami buiutil luiLst near Port Crescent, Olympic Peninsula, Wash- inirton. DESTRUCTIVE LUMBERING. A second thing which maj^ happen to a forest is to be cut down without care for the future. The yield of a forest lumbered in the usual way is more or less thor- oughly harvested, it is true, but at an enormous cost to the forest. Ordinarj- lumbering injures or destroys the young growth, both in the present and for the 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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