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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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414 THE AMERICAS MUSEUM JUUJLXAL France. To exploit these forests, bat- talions of skilled forest and sawmill workers from Canada were organized and eqviipped. It was to aid in this work that in 1!»1T several patriotic men in Xew England financed and sent over to '"Old England"' ten fully equipped sawmill units. It was a gallant act and deeply appreciated l)y the British au- thorities. But the shipping of forest material to France was largely stopped in the spring of 1917 on account of the re- duction of tonnage l)y the Gerinan sub- marine. It was then that France opened her forests to the Canadian forestry troops, to produce material for the British armies and to help the French engineers to increase the production of material needed bv the French armies. The entry of America into the war placed a new burden upon the French forests. At the beginning, a certain amount of lumber, piling, and crossties was shipped from this country. But the need of ship space for men and for ecjuipment and supplies that could not be obtained in France was so great that the French Government itself requested that we send forestry troops to obtain our lumber and other general forest products from the French forests. Only those familiar with the French forests, with the long years of careful forestry that has been necessary to build them np, and with the sentiment of the French nation for its forests, can ap- preciate the great sacrifice involved in this action. It was to prepare for the forestry - -* :rfc.-,=.-,=...\
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