Category: Science - Biology
When it is remembered that the suitability of wood for a particular purpose depends most of all upon its internal structure, it is plain that the woodworker should know the essential characteristics of that structure. While his main interest in wood is as lumber, dead material...
Man's relation to the forest has not been entirely destructive and injurious. He has exerted and is more and more exerting influences which while still enabling him to use the f...
3. CHAPTER III.Following the precedent of U. S. Forest Bulletin No. 17, Sudworth's _Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States_, the complicated rules for the capitalization of the na...
1. CHAPTER I.When it is remembered that the suitability of wood for a particular purpose depends most of all upon its internal structure, it is plain that the woodworker should know the esse...
6. CHAPTER VI._Wind._ "Windfalls" are not an uncommon sight in any forest. Frequently only small areas are blown down, one large tree upsetting a few others, or again a vast region is destroy...
2. CHAPTER II.There are many properties of wood,--some predominant in one species, some in another,--that make it suitable for a great variety of uses. Sometimes it is a combination of proper...
9. Part I, 82-83.)But there comes an evening when nobody thinks of going to bed. All day the smoke has become denser and denser, until it is no longer a haze, but a thick yellowish mass of vapor,...
5. CHAPTER V.The forest is much more than an assemblage of different trees, it is an organism; that is, the trees that compose it have a vital relation to each other. It may almost be said t...
4. CHAPTER IV.The forests of the United States, Map, Fig. 44, may be conveniently divided into two great regions, the Eastern or Atlantic Forest, and the Western or Pacific Forest. These are...
7. CHAPTER VII.It is not commonly realized that forest fires are almost entirely the result of human agency. When cruisers first began to locate claims in this country, practically no regions...
12. Chapter III lists 67 trees; The (following) Lists from the JesupPage 268: Fig. 118 text: Basswood, 1st and 2d, 1" x 8" and up by x 00". and: White pine, rough uppers, 1" x 8" and up x 00'. This is as printed; the transcriber has no idea what...
8. Part 1. p. 79-80.)Of such calamities, one of the worst that is on record is that known as the Peshtigo fire, which, in 1871, during the same month, October, when Chicago was laid in ashes, devast...
11. Chapter II has three types of footnotes, with different notations.References to the author's previous book, being short, are placed at the end of the paragraph; numbered technical or tabular footnotes, or footnotes referencing other publicatio...