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The National Geographic Magazine

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The National Geographic Magazine

From Gifford Pinchot, Forester

Conservative Lumbering in the Adirondack Mountains, New York Note the height of the stump

in a broad belt along the Atlantic and the Gulf coasts, lies the southern pine forests, whose most important tree, both for lumber and naval stores, is the southern yellow pine. In the Mississippi Valley lies the interior hardwood forest of oaks, hickories, ashes, gums, and other hardwood trees. It is bordered on the west by the plains, which cover the eastern slope of the continental divide until they meet the evergreen Rocky Mountain forest, which clothes the slopes of this great range from the Canadian line to Mexico. Separated

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