Biennial Report of the California State Board of Forestry for the Years ...: 1885-1890, Bände 1-3J.J. Ayers, Superintendent state printing, 1886 |
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ABBOT KINNEY Abies acres alpine altitude bark beautiful become belt Board of Forestry botanist bracts branches branchlets California cañons Cedar characters Coast Range Cone-bearers cones County cultivation Cypress Digger pine Douglas Spruce durable elevation Eucalyptus extending feet high feet in diameter fifty feet five foliage forest trees Forestry four fruit fuel genus ground growing growth half height Hemlock Humboldt Humboldt County hundred and fifty hundred feet inches long Juniper Larch leaves Lemmon limbs lumber male flowers maturity Mendocino County miles Monterey Monterey Pine mountains nearly North Island northern Oregon Pacific Picea pitch pine planting rainfall red fir redwood region resin River Santa scales season seeds Sequoia Shasta shrub Sierra County Sierra Nevada slopes soil southern species streams sugar pine thick thousand feet timber timber lands Valley valuable variety white fir wood yellow pine yield
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Seite 113 - And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
Seite 36 - ... the hum of an insect, prevails. But if a storm bursts forth, masses of water suddenly shoot from the mountain heights into the shattered gulfs, waste without irrigating, deluge without refreshing the soil they overflow in their swift descent, and leave it even more seared than it was from want of moisture.
Seite 149 - I do assure you, from my heart, it is a terrible pleasure to me thus to meet a really good man, and one with whom I can talk of plants.3 River Columbia, Oct.
Seite 80 - I should, never again see my friends in England to inform them verbally of this most beautiful and immensely grand tree, I shall here state the dimensions of the largest I could find among several that had been blown down by the wind. At three feet from the ground its circumference is 57 feet 9 inches ; at one hundred and thirty-four feet, 17 feet 5 inches ; the extreme length 245 feet.
Seite 20 - ... that he or she or they have planted, and, for not less than eight years, have cultivated and protected such quantity and character of trees as aforesaid ; that not less than twenty-seven hundred trees were planted on each acre, and that at the time of making such proof there shall be then growing at least six hundred and seventy-five living and thrifty trees to each acre, they shall receive a patent for such tract of land.
Seite 57 - But I behold a fearful sign, To which the white men's eyes are blind ; Their race may vanish hence, like mine, And leave no trace behind, Save ruins o'er the region spread, And the white stones above the dead.
Seite 34 - This fact is so familiar in the American States and the British Provinces, that there are few old residents of the interior of those districts who are not able to testify to its truth as a matter of personal observation.
Seite 36 - The abuse of the right of pasturage and the felling of the woods have stripped the soil of all its grass and all its trees, and the scorching sun bakes it to the consistence of porphyry. When moistened by the rain, as it has neither support nor cohesion, it rolls down to the valleys, sometimes in floods resembling black, yellow, or reddish lava, sometimes in streams of pebbles, and even huge blocks of stone, which pour down with a frightful roar, and in their swift course exhibit the most convulsive...
Seite 219 - AN ACT authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes.