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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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FORESTERS AT THE FIGHTING FRONT 713 that which 1 saw. but even here the productive ca))acit\ of the soil for forest growtli, to say nothing- of a.iirit-ul- ture, has been ahnost irreparablv impaired. While the trenches may be tilled up in the valley and the fields restored, their immediate value will be slig-ht. Sub-soil ))loii.<;hins- has its advanta<res. but no one would shells into these woods from time to time, "fishing" for these concealed batteries. The effect is that of a heavy ice storm combined with a moderately high wind— broken branches, shattered tops, occasional trees up- rooted or broken down. A more com))lete study of this light shelling would consider land over which a gold dredge had operated have been interesting, i)articularly if an opportimity to be desirable farm jjroperty, and much of the vallev could have been afforded to compare the effect of shrap- land resembles western land so treated. nel and high e.x))losive shells, but wars are not conducted It will take careful study and experimentations to dis- for the benefit of foresters, of foresters with an investi- cover the tree-growing cajiacity of the hillsides—studies gating turn of mind, not easily made under shell fire. A visit to the trenches themselves showed some inter-
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Photograf'h by Intt-rtialwnal Film Scrzice. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN DURING AN AVIATOR'S DEATH FALL Ttiis remarkable photograph was found in a camera picked up near the wreck of a flying machine in which an aviator had just fallen to his death, after a shot from a German air raider. It is assumed that the camera had been fixed for exposure and that when the stricken machine dropped the picture was taken automatically. It is believed that the svene pictured is that of an explodine shell, as no other theory explains the cloud of smoke and dust ?t the left. This mute evidence of the camera bestirs a picture of the thrill of war as experienced by the man who braves the perils of the air in a winged ship. When an airplane is si:ccessfully attacked by an enemy plane the aviator knov\s no escape. With his machine wrecked his plunge to death is inevitable. In this forest scene is '.jiven a suggestion of the type of woodland in which American Forest Regiments are at work The bleakness of the landscape is in keeping willi the general appearance of the forests in the war zone, but there is good timber available in the standing trunks. The German fire was either directed largely against the French infantry advance or was not especially heavy, judged by barrage standards. The writer had the opportunity of visiting some of the French batteries concealed in the woods back of the lines. The timber was a rather dense stand, some thirty years old, I should suppose. The Germans had dropped esting uses of wood jjroducts. Most of the dugouts re- semble in their construction vegetable cellars and pow- der magazines of our northern lumber camps, being built of small logs and poles banked with earth. The stiff soil of the region holds up well and the trenches require little shoring up. When it is required the French use large numbers of

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