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Page 290
... timber thieves not merely steal- ing trees , but stealing whole forests . I observed hundreds of saw- mills in full blast , devoted exclusively to the sawing up of timber stolen from the public lands . I observed a most lively export ...
... timber thieves not merely steal- ing trees , but stealing whole forests . I observed hundreds of saw- mills in full blast , devoted exclusively to the sawing up of timber stolen from the public lands . I observed a most lively export ...
Page 296
... timber , the fallen timber , and the timber injured by blight or fire . " The species named in the law were exactly the species that the pulp men wanted , and they congratulated them- selves upon their foresight in sending ...
... timber , the fallen timber , and the timber injured by blight or fire . " The species named in the law were exactly the species that the pulp men wanted , and they congratulated them- selves upon their foresight in sending ...
Page 297
... timber thieves - should be subject to a heavy money penalty for every tree cut by them and also to imprisonment . The State officials who were charged with the duty of enforcing this law and its penalties proceeded very much as though ...
... timber thieves - should be subject to a heavy money penalty for every tree cut by them and also to imprisonment . The State officials who were charged with the duty of enforcing this law and its penalties proceeded very much as though ...
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Awareness of the Living World | 3 |
MANS DOMINION | 97 |
THE FLAMING SWORD | 267 |
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abundance acres agriculture Aldo Leopold American animals areas beauty become birds buffalo busy monster Canaan Mountain century Charles Galton Darwin chemical cities civilization coal conservation conservationism crops desert Ducktown E. E. Cummings earth ecological ecologist economic environment environmental farm feet fertility fields fish forest future Gerard Piel grass green ground grow growth hills human hundred increase Indians industrial insects John Muir kill lake land land ethic landscape live look man's Mark Van Doren means ment miles million Mississippi mountain National Park nature nature's ocean parathion perhaps pesticides plain plants poison pollution population portions preserve problem produce region reservoirs rich river road rock selection soil spring streams things Thomas Cole thousand timber tion town trees valley vast vegetable Wasichus waste wild wilderness wind woods