The Practice of Silviculture (Classic Reprint): With Particular Reference to Its Application in the United States: With Particular Reference to Its Application in the United States (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The Practice of Silviculture has been prepared for use as a text book to cover a field at present unfilled. SO far as is known there is no recent book applicable to the forests Of this continent covering the field Of silviculture. Graves' Principles Of Handling Woodlands, published in 1911, and Schlich's Manual Of Forestry, Vols. I and II, revised in 1895 are practically the only works on the subject in the English language. Government and state publications con tain, in more or less fragmentary form, a large store Of knowledge concerning the practice Of silviculture. Forest Terminology in the Appendix is Copied verbatim from the Journal of Forestry, Vol. XV, 1917, published by the Society Of American Foresters. The author does not claim originality for the greater part of the information. Available sources have been investi gated and a selection and compilation made Of such informa tion as is deemed most useful to-day. Presentation Of the subject is from the standpoint of the teacher and the arrangement and discussion are shaped in a manner which it is believed will be clear to the student.
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