FORESTS AND FORESTRY OF GERMANY
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Fine Growth of Spruce near Kronach, Germany. A Sliding Road in the Forest.
should be cut in any one year than was produced the same year. After the coal mines wore opened and with the better means of transportation, all fear of a fuel famine passed away, but the practise and conception of conservative, as well as constructive forestry, had taken such a deep hold upon the public mind, that it is small wonder the art has reached a stage of intensive development that no other nation can rival. Through generations of practical tests and experiments, with many failures at first, but with a persistency worthy of the cause and characteristic of the race, German sylviculture has attained a high degree of perfection. Attention is called to a few typical forest areas that were among those visited by the writer.
Spruce and Fir Stand in a Typical German Forest.
