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 | | The vegetation resembles that of the Vosges; forests of spruce, silver fir, Scotch pine, and, mingled with bfrche~, beech and oak, are the chief woods met with. |
 | | The National Forest Policy.The forest policy of the United States may be said to have had its origin in 1799 in the enactment of a law which authorized the purchase of timber suitable for the use of the navy, or of land upon which such timber was growing. |
 | | The forests with which the American forester deals are rich in species,usually endowed with abundant powers of reproduction, and, over a large part of their range, greatly dependent for their composition and general character upon the action of forest fires. |
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