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What Forestry Has Done., Treadwell Cleaveland Jr.
What Forestry Has Done., Treadwell Cleaveland Jr.
USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications
Many people in this country think that forestry had never been tried until the Government began to practice it upon the National Forests. Yet forestry is practiced by every civilized country in the world, except China and Turkey. It gets results which can be got in no other way, and which are necessary to the general welfare. Forestry is not a new thing. It was discussed two thousand years ago, and it has been studied and applied with increasing thoroughness ever since.
The principles of forestry are everywhere the same. They rest on natural laws, which are at work everywhere …