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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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41G THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL the movemont of artillery, the millions of board feet of lumber used in con- structing training and rest camps, hangars for aeroplanes, temporary hos- pitals, emergency buildings of all kinds, and for miscellaneous general use at the front and in the rear; also the poles and other material used in trench con- struction, the excelsior to fill the bed sacks of the troops, and the thousands of cords of fuel needed for cooking, for heating, and for sanitation. The forestry troops are located at many different points throughout cen- tral, eastern, and southern France. In several places there are as many as 750 to 1000 men logging for and operating from three • to five sawmills. More often a single compan)^ of 250 men, or a detachment of from 80 to 125 men, constitutes the unit. The size of the unit depends on the quantity of avail- al)le timber at any given point. In gen- eral it has lieen the policy to scatter the operations. It makes less of a burden ui)on transportation, since there is need for inaterialat nuiny different parts of the rear as-well as of the front; and witli comparatively small units it is l)ossible to do better work in the forest. The forests of France in which the Americans are operating are in part national, in part owned by communities or institutions, and in part private. Tlie cutting rights are obtained through an interallied council for acquiring for- ests, called Comits interallie des Bois de Guerre. Through this council the available resources are assigned to the French, the British and Canadians, the Americans, and the Belgians. Where private lands are acquired the prices are stabilized, thus preventing specula- tion or competition between the allied nations. The procedure is one of many examples of the harmonious and unified action Ix'tween the several Allies. There are in France several forest
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Phiitograph hy H. S. (frarcs Forests for cutting (tlie illustiatiou iliovvs young Scotch pines) are being obtained partly through grants from the French Government and partly through purchase from private owners. A tour of the forests in autumn brings to the eyes of the American vivid pictures of the beauty of the French land- scape, with its splendid roads bordered everywhere with trees,—especially beautiful is the gold of road sycamores against the green of the pine forests

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