Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Lumbering and Forest Products 139 national treasury. The rest is returned to the states in which the forests are located, for the benefit of their schools and roads. The lands most recently included in the National Forests are in the White and the Appalachian Mountains. Forest rangers are employed to build trails and roads, to prevent fires, to fight fires, and to see that the forests are not abused. Effort is made to keep the forests in the best condition for tree growth. Underbrush is cut out regularly, and diseased and stunted trees are felled. The healthy trees are sold and cut only when they are full grown. The Forest Service makes a special effort to preserve a forest growth on steep slopes in order to prevent the soil from being washed away. Thus the flow of the rivers is made steady, with the result that their water power is of increased value, and the danger of floods is diminished. FORESTS IN FOREIGN LANDS Other North American forests. We have already noted that the forests along our northern border extend into Canada. There they expand into vast primeval wastes where Indians still hunt fur-bear- ing animals, and where the people of America and Canada find an enchanting summer playground. The parts of our northeastern forest that continue into Quebec and the parts of our Pacific forest that continue into British Columbia are especially valuable and extensive. Both support thriving lumber industries. Most of the Canadian forest growth, however, is fit only for paper making, since in high latitudes the trees dwindle, until in the far north they are mere shrubs. A cold, grassy, treeless waste extends throughout northern Canada. To the south of the United States, in Mexico, there are almost no forests throughout the great area of the dry northern desert and cen- tral plateaus. The forest wealth of Mexico is in the tropical forests of the lowlands and the seaward slopes of the south. Conservation of European forests. In most of Europe the climate is well suited for forests, and within historic times they flourished al- most everywhere. As the population increased it was necessary to cut the forests in order to use the land for crops. In some places this was done unwisely ; the soil was washed away and the growth of new forests was hampered. Some countries, like France and Germany, early recognized the foolishness of thus slashing away the country’s forests. Now their policy is to plant many trees and to give them painstaking

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