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Circular No. 3: Southern Pictures and Pencillings

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Circular No. 3: Southern Pictures and Pencillings

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Circular No. 3: Southern Pictures and Pencillings

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Circular No. 3: Southern Pictures and Pencillings

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  • C^^o^Myt. *J.d > 3\ P*^ 3 From Southern Pictures and Pencillings, October-November, 1899. N AUTHORITY, Dr. C. A. Schenck, the eminent forester, in one of his interesting monographs asks, "What is forestry ?" and answers that no one seems to realize the scope and meaning of the term. Present conditions in the commercial and industrial world and in the Southern Alleghanies point to the rapid destruction of the virgin woods. The student of forestry is taught, and experience has proved the teaching to be true, that deforested land, particularly in a mountainous country is the direct cause of destructive floods. The interference and absorption by the trees distributes and regulates the rainfall. In the dry seasons the trees protect and hold back the evaporation of the innumerable and minute tributaries to the springs, watercourses and rivers, thus regulating and preserving the water supply, without which regulation no region can long remain attractive or profitable. By the present system of lumber operations the virgin forests of the South bid fair to be soon destroyed. As the authority on the subject has indicated, if the forests are lumbered out rapidly as at present and if the fires are allowed to rage unchecked as at present, the same condition will speedily prevail in the South that now prevails in the lake states. There will not, it is claimed, be any sudden collapse of the lumber industry either South or North when the virgin forests are destroyed—if we are to permit them to be destroyed. The forests will be logged over three or four times; trees that are not worth taking now will be worth taking a few years hence, and so on. Gradual slackening of the industry will take place. It will slowly step down to the level which it occupies abroad. The mills will be supplied with short logs about ten inches through on an average. Lumber will be much more expensive as the supply will not equal the demand. Such seems the future of the forests and the lumber industry of the South. From an innate love of nature and sense of its beauty, every one regrets the seemingly inevitable doom; the woodman, perhaps, more than the townsman. For the commonwealth, forestry as a permanent business is extremely desirable for climatic and economic reasons, the forests acting as a source of national health, steady water supply, and revenue from land often not fit for any other production. The people as a whole are interested in conservative, lasting forestry. The individual owning forests is solely interested in money-making forestry, conservative or destructive of forests as the case may be.
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This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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