item: #1 of 11 id: 11587 author: Pack, Charles Lathrop title: The School Book of Forestry date: None words: 29112 flesch: 75 summary: Fires wound the base and trunks of forest trees severely so that they are exposed to serious destruction by heartrot. Campers, tourists, hunters, and fishermen are responsible for many forest fires by neglecting to extinguish their campfires. keywords: acres; cent; country; cut; cutting; farm; feet; fire; forest; forest fires; forest trees; forestry; future; growth; lands; lumber; material; national; national forest; new; pine; state forests; states; supply; timber; time; trees; united; use; water; white; wood; work; years cache: 11587.txt plain text: 11587.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 17645 author: Egleston, Nathaniel Hillyer title: Arbor Day Leaves A Complete Programme For Arbor Day Observance, Including Readings, Recitations, Music, and General Information date: None words: 14471 flesch: 77 summary: =Missouri.=--From the Superintendent of Public Schools, in his annual report: Let this love for planting trees, shrubs, vines, and flowers be encouraged and stimulated in the school-room and not only will the school-yards profit thereby, but the now barren farm-yards and pastures will remain the recipients of your instruction. Sterling Morton) 3 Leaves, and What They Do 5 Bryant, the Poet of Trees 8 Forest Hymn--(Bryant) 8 James Russell Lowell 9 The Oak--(James Russell Lowell) 9 What One Tree is Worth 11 Enduring Character of the Forests--(Susan Fenimore Cooper) 11 The Popular Poplar Tree--(Blanch Willis Howard) 12 Forestry and the Need of It--(Hon. keywords: air; arbor; arbor day; arithmetic; book; cents; day; earth; forest; history; illustrated; language; leaf; leaves; life; new; observance; plant; planting; pupil; school; states; tree cache: 17645.txt plain text: 17645.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 18680 author: Allen, E. T. (Edward Tyson) title: Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods date: None words: 43507 flesch: 63 summary: Unfortunately for the timber owner who wishes to enter upon extensive seeding operations, the business of collecting and preparing forest tree seed for market has received but little attention from old-established seed firms, and it is not always possible to purchase the species and quantity desired. On the other hand, forest fires in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California destroy annually, on an average, timber which if used instead of destroyed would bring forty million dollars to their inhabitants, Idleness of burned and cut-over land represents a direct loss almost as great. keywords: acre; cent; conditions; cost; crop; cut; cutting; fire; forest; forest fire; forest growth; forest land; forestry; ground; growing; growth; land; owner; pay; pine; present; protection; public; seed; species; stand; state; system; tax; taxation; timber; time; trees; value; years cache: 18680.txt plain text: 18680.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 23029 author: None title: Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State date: None words: 26532 flesch: 84 summary: In this case the proverbial fine feathers do cover fine little bird. How cold that poor little bird must be Without any clothes like mine, said she, Although it is sunshiny weather! A nice little girl is that, piped he, But, oh, how cold she must be! keywords: arbor; arbor day; bird; blue; bluebird; boy; children; day; dear; flowers; girl; god; good; gray; ground; home; illustration; life; love; man; nature; nest; ohio; plant; school; song; spring; state; tail; time; tra; tree; white; wild; winter; year; young cache: 23029.txt plain text: 23029.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 31367 author: Pinchot, Gifford title: The Training of a Forester date: None words: 20886 flesch: 56 summary: Twenty-nine States make appropriations for forest work. Forest Supervisors, practically all of whom are men of long experience in forest work, receive from $1600 to $2700 per annum. keywords: fire; forest; forest schools; forest service; forest work; forester; forestry; good; knowledge; land; man; men; methods; national; profession; public; states forest; timber; time; trees; united; use; work cache: 31367.txt plain text: 31367.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 35419 author: Noyes, William title: Wood and Forest date: None words: 62545 flesch: 78 summary: Shakes are splits of various forms as: _star shakes_, Fig. 41, _a_, splits which radiate from the pith along the pith rays and widen outward; _heart shakes_, Fig. 41, _b_, splits crossing the central rings and widening toward the center; and _cup_ or _ring shakes_, Fig. 41, _c_, splits between the annual rings. A_, fir; _B_, hard pine; _C_, soft pine; _ar_, annual ring; _o.e._, outer edge of ring; _i.e._, inner edge of ring; _s.w._, summer wood; _sp.w. keywords: appearance; bark; black; book; branches; brown; cells; cent; characteristics; color; common; cross; diameter; fig; forest; grain; growth; habitat; illustration; leaf; leaves; life; light; list; long; lumber; maple; medium; oak; pine; pith; pores; qualities; radial; rays; red; refers; rings; sap; section; service; shrinkage; size; spruce; summer wood; tangential; timber; trees; uses; weight; white; wood; work; yellow cache: 35419.txt plain text: 35419.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 37359 author: Knapp, Frederick Malcolm title: Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 date: None words: 17381 flesch: 77 summary: However, the big future for the motor truck for logging is in the larger tracts of timber where it would not pay to put in a railroad but where a good type of motor truck road can be built cheaply and loads as large as the truck can handle be carried with no road restrictions as to the weight. [Illustration: Sub-grade for motor truck logging road.] keywords: cost; feet; load; logging; logging truck; logs; min; motor truck; page; plank; plank road; road; time; tires; total; trailer; truck; use; | | cache: 37359.txt plain text: 37359.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 37595 author: Ream, Robert R. title: Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota date: None words: 30132 flesch: 72 summary: [Illustration: _Figure 4.--An important technique used in the study involved aerial tracking and observing of wolf packs. [3] Because wolf packs sometimes split temporarily, these figures may not strictly represent actual pack sizes; nevertheless they should provide reasonably accurate approximations. keywords: 1968; 1969; age; animals; area; conditions; courtesy; days; deer; february; figure; forest; hunter; illustration; kills; lake; mech; miles; minnesota; pack; percent; photo; population; snow; study; table; wolf; wolves cache: 37595.txt plain text: 37595.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 42391 author: Boerker, Richard H. D. (Richard Hans Douai) title: Our National Forests A Short Popular Account of the Work of the United States Forest Service on the National Forests date: None words: 63389 flesch: 64 summary: Some of the smaller watersheds in these mountains are said to irrigate orchards valued at $10,000,000.] APPENDIX TABLE OF LAND AREAS WITHIN THE NATIONAL FOREST BOUNDARIES June 30, 1917 Key: DN=District Number -------------------+--------------+-----------+-----------+----------- | Headquarters | National | Patented | Total State and | of | Forest | and other | area Forest | Forest | Land | lands | (acres) George, | | | | Utah | 17,680 | | 17,680 Kaibab 4 |Kanab, Utah | 1,072,375 | 525 | 1,072,900 Manzano[1] 3 |Albuquerque, | | | | N. M. | 27,708 | 29,724 | 57,432 Prescott 3 |Prescott | 1,433,366 | 186,589 | 1,619,955 Sitgreaves 3 |Snowflake | 659,337 | 234,883 | 893,720 Tonto 3 |Roosevelt | 1,994,239 | 39,521 | 2,033,760 Tusayan 3 |Williams | 1,602,750 | 186,068 | 1,788,818 ARKANSAS | | | | Arkansas 7 |Hot Springs | 626,746 | 331,544 | 958,290 Ozark 7 |Harrison | 291,840 | 237,338 | 529,178 CALIFORNIA | | | | Angeles 5 |Los Angeles | 820,980 | 240,723 | 1,061,703 California 5 |Oriental | 807,444 | 255,178 | 1,062,622 Cleveland 5 |Escondido | 547,981 | 265,635 | 813,616 Crater[1] 6 |Medford, Ore. | 46,977 | 10,045 | 57,022 Eldorado[1] 5 |Placerville | 549,392 | 286,408 | 835,800 Inyo[1] 5 |Bishop | 1,269,980 | 67,800 | 1,337,780 Klamath[1] 5 |Yreka | 1,470,841 | 263,824 | 1,734,665 Lassen 5 |Red Bluff | 936,877 | 384,466 | 1,321,343 Modoc 5 |Alturas | 1,182,986 | 399,873 | 1,532,859 Mono[1] 5 |Gardnerville, | | | | Nev. | 784,620 | 90,241 | 874,861 Monterey 5 |King City | 316,058 | 44,436 | 360,494 Plumas 5 |Quincy | 1,144,835 | 288,025 | 1,432,860 Santa Barbara 5 |Santa Barbara | 1,688,571 | 239,723 | 1,928,294 Sequoia 5 |Bakersfield | 2,194,926 | 274,344 | 2,469,270 Shasta 5 |Sisson | 803,448 | 783,432 | 1,586,880 Sierra 5 |Northfork | 1,489,934 | 172,626 | 1,662,560 Siskiyou[1] 6 |Grants Pass, | | | | Ore. | 349,069 | 52,726 | 401,795 Stanislaus 5 |Sonora | 810,399 | 294,013 | 1,104,412 Tahoe 5 |Nevada City | 542,226 | 666,851 | 1,209,077 Trinity 5 |Weaverville | 1,430,547 | 315,600 | 1,746,147 COLORADO | | | | Arapaho 2 |Hot Sulphur | | | | Springs | 634,903 | 46,371 | 681,274 Battlement 2 |Collbran | 651,227 | 26,113 | 677,340 Cochetopa 2 |Saguache | 905,723 | 24,497 | 930,220 Colorado 2 |Fort Collins | 847,328 | 302,266 | 1,149,594 Durango 2 |Durango | 614,129 | 89,871 | 704,000 Gunnison 2 |Gunnison | 908,055 | 43,255 | 951,310 Hayden[1] 2 |Encampment, | | | | Wyo. | 65,598 | 6,402 | 72,000 Holy Cross 2 |Glenwood | | | | Springs | 576,905 | 28,795 | 605,700 La Sal[1] 4 |Moab, Utah | 27,444 | 176 | 27,620 Leadville 2 |Leadville | 934,017 | 122,503 | 1,056,520 Montezuma 2 |Mancos | 700,082 | 112,018 | 812,100 keywords: area; california; conditions; cut; district; feet; figure; fires; forest assistant; forest conservation; forest cover; forest destruction; forest experiment; forest fire; forest guards; forest homestead; forest improvements; forest lands; forest management; forest officers; forest policy; forest products; forest protection; forest ranger; forest region; forest resources; forest service; forest supervisor; forest timber; forestry; forests; government; grazing; illustration; lassen national; methods; national forest; new; people; power; sale; seed; states; states forest; stock; studies; supply; time; trees; use; value; water; wood; work; year; | | cache: 42391.txt plain text: 42391.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 45032 author: Snow, Charles H. (Charles Henry) title: The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties First Edition date: None words: 45082 flesch: 75 summary: This commercial division is also a botanical one in the North, where the only species of any note are the white ash and black ash (_F. americana_ and _F. nigra_). https://archive.org/details/principalspecies00snowrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). keywords: american; appearance; ash; bark; birch; black; brown; california; cedar; color; common; diameter; elasticity; features; feet; fir; florida; footnote; forestry; grain; hard; heartwood; leaves; light; locality; maple; modulus; nomenclature; oak; pine; plate; pounds; qualities; red; remarks; representative; rupture; sapwood; species; spruce; states; structure; sudworth; tree; uses; weight; white; wood; yellow cache: 45032.txt plain text: 45032.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 62686 author: Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard) title: Forestry for Farmers date: None words: 21999 flesch: 68 summary: How trees grow 3 Food materials and conditions of growth 3 Soil conditions 4 Light conditions 6 Physiology of tree growth 9 Sap up and sap down 10 Progress of development 11 Growth in length and ramification 11 Growth in thickness 14 Form development 17 Rate of growth 19 Reproduction 21 How to plant a forest 22 This process of food preparation, called assimilation, can be carried on only in the green parts, and in these only when exposed to light and air; hence foliage, air, and light at the top are essential prerequisites for tree growth, and hence, other conditions being favorable, the more foliage and the better developed it is, and the more light this foliage has at its disposal for its work, the more vigorously will the tree grow. keywords: conditions; cover; crop; crown; development; forest; growth; kinds; light; planting; shade; soil; species; time; trees; water; wood; years cache: 62686.txt plain text: 62686.txt