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» Logging The Pacific Slopes
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/31/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Lumbering started on the west coast about 1850, in the days of the Gold Rush.

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» Since The Days Of Leif Ericson
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/25/2008 | Environment | Unrated

LOGGING was probably the first commercial activity of white men on this continent.

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» Railroads And Foresters
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/21/2008 | Environment | Rating:

Railroads have always run on wood.

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» Picturing Forests From The Air
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/21/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Aerial photographs have many uses in forestry.

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» Prescription For Woods Safety
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/20/2008 | Environment | Unrated

"You think most accidents come from unsafe working conditions and unsafe acts," the logging boss said.

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» Industrial Forestry Associations
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/17/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Industrial forestry is relatively new in the United States.

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» National Forest Personnel
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/17/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The Forest Service, in employing new personnel, seeks to hire men and women who are properly trained for the work and have high ideals and a strong desire to serve the public.

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» Consulting Foresters
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Like engineering and dentistry and other professions, forestry has opportunities for consultants, who sell advice or their services.

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» Teatchers And Conservation
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

More and more colleges, teacher-training institutions, and elementary schools and high schools are offering nontechnical instruction in problems and practices of forest conservation and the methods of teaching them.

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» Education In Forestry
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

FORESTRY in the United States attained the dignity of a profession about 50 years ago, largely because of the inauguration and the rapid spread of technical training.

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» How To Use Forest Products Laboratory
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

A tremendous amount of information on matters pertaining to wood is available at the Forest Products Laboratory.

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» The Forest Products Laboratory
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The Forest Products Laboratory, which is maintained in Madison, Wis., as a unit of the United States Department of Agriculture, conducts research to help conserve the Nation's timber supply and make it serve more satisfactorily the needs of the people for wood products of all kinds.

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» Putting Unused Wood To Work
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Every time a saw chews through a log, it spits aside sawdust.

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» Chemicals From Wood
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Chemical processing of wood, up to the present time, has been limited to (1) destructive distillation, whereby charcoal, wood alcohol, acetic acid...

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» The Gluing Of Wood
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Gluing, when properly done, is the strongest known means of fastening pieces of wood together.

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» The Prefabricated House
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The thing about a house, when a person buys or builds one, is its permanence.

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» Fungi And Wood
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/13/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Wood is subject to several kinds of defects or blemishes that are caused by fungi and bacteria.

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» Painting The Farm And City Home
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Painting is a good way to make wood houses attractive and to freshen or change their appearance.

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» Preservative Treatment Of Wood
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Wood now in useful service is being destroyed in this country by decay and insects at the rate of several billion board feet a year—an amount approaching the normal average used annually in the construction of dwelling units.

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» Seasoning Of Wood
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The living tree holds gallons and gallons of water in the walls and cell cavities of the fibers that make up the structure of its wood.

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» The Wood For The Job
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

BECAUSE WOOD is a part of every home and because anybody who can pull a saw or lift a hammer can work with wood, a general knowledge of its properties and uses will come in handy to every person who lives in a home.

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» To Help Control Floods
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Many of our serious water problems have their roots in the misuse of land.

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» Watersheds And How To Care For Them
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

A watershed is a concave or trough-shaped land area in which the runoff from rain and snow drains toward a single channel.

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» Timber Cutting And Water Yields
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/9/2008 | Environment | Unrated

THE VALUE of forest vegetation in protecting watershed land has been so clearly demonstrated that its development and maintenance are recognized more and more as a powerful tool to control erosion and floods.

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» Action On The Blue Ridge
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/9/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Two persons met by chance on the banks of a Blue Ridge Mountain stream in the George Washington National Forest one day in the early 1930's.

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» Forests And Fish
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Nearly all of our forest waters are trout waters, except those in the warmer localities in the Middle West and South.

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» Managing Utah's Big-Game Crop
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Fifteen persons of every hundred men, women, and children in Utah bought a license to hunt big game in 1948.

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» Trees And Food From Acorns
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Acorns are more valuable than many persons realize.

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» Forests As A Wildlife Habitat
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The amount and quality of food, the difficulty in getting it, and the assurance that there will be some next winter determine many of the activities and habits of man and beast—how hard one works...

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» Wildlife In The Small Woodland
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

SMALL WOODLANDS are natural homes for such valuable fur bearers as the skunk, opossum, mink, raccoon, fox, and weasel.

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» Safety For Forest Visitors
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Too many forest outings have been marred, if not ruined, by faulty planning, inadequate equipment, or poor judgment.

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» Everyone Is Welcome
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Every year Americans make 21 million visits to the national forests.

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» Treasures Of The Nation
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Many of the great and spectacular parks in the United States are included in the national park system...

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» Trail Riding In The Wilderness
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Because of the very inaccessibility that gives charm and mystery to wild places, few Americans in the past 40 years have ever found themselves far from the sound of an automobile horn.

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» New Values In The Minds Of Men
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 03/8/2008 | Environment | Unrated

"RECREATION" and "recreate" mean refreshment, to give fresh life to, reanimate, revive, divert, amuse, gratify.

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» Machines And Fires In The South
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/27/2008 | Environment | Unrated

After 30 years of effort by private, State, and Federal organizations to protect their forests against fire, some 97 million acres of the private wooded land in the South are under some kind of protection.

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» Fire As A Tool In Southern Pine
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/24/2008 | Environment | Unrated

For three centuries people in the South have practiced woods burning.

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» Fighting Fires From The Air
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/21/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The roar of the motors faded almost to silence as the patrol plane disappeared behind a gray peak.

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» The Fire On Cedar Creek
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/19/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The telephone at the Red River ranger station rang urgently early one Saturday afternoon in August.

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» Forest Fire Danger
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/18/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The 0.62 inch of rain that fell September 22, 1947, in southern Maine was the last most residents were to see in 47 days.

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» Building A Fire Organization
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/18/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Early discovery of a fire—whether in forest or city—and speed and strength in attacking it are the cornerstones on which a fire-control organization is built.

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» Bad Business; Your Business
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/18/2008 | Environment | Unrated

On suitable areas and under well-planned use and control programs, fire may be a good tool in sound, long-term management of land and resources.

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» Progress, But Still A Problem
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/14/2008 | Environment | Unrated

IN 1947, in all parts of the United States, 200,799 forest fires burned over 23,226,000 acres—an area the size of Indiana...

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» The Airplane In Forest-Pest Control
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/14/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The airplane has become a new weapon in the never-ending battle against destructive forest insects.

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» Breeding And Selecting Pest-Resistant Trees
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Genetics has given us a good new tool to use against the diseases and insects of trees—the selection and breeding of trees for resistance to pests.

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» Heart Rot
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Heart rots, which are caused by fungi that attack the wood of living trees, are to blame for an estimated annual loss of 1.5 billion board feet in our commercial forests.

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» Dwarf Mistletoes
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The dwarf mistletoes are serious pests of western coniferous forests.

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» Blister Rust On White Pine
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

White pine blister rust is a fungus that attacks and destroys the highly valued white, or five-needled, pines.

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» Duch Elm Disease
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The Dutch elm disease is caused by the fungus Ceratostomella ulmi.

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» Introduced Tree Diseases And Insects
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Many people now are asking: Are there more insects and diseases than before?

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» Deseases And The Forest
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Trees, no less than other large forms of life, are subject to diseases that reduce their growth, destroy their usefulness, or bring death.

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» Controlling The Tussock Moth
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

In the field headquarters at Moscow, Idaho, a tense group of men were waiting for the signal that was to start the greatest of all airplane offensives against an insect.

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» Insects In Wood Products
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 02/7/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Insects attack the forest tree in all stages of its life, from seed to maturity.

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» Pine Bark Beetles
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Pine bark beetles are small, dark-colored, hard-shelled insects of the size of a grain of rice or a medium-sized bean.

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» The Spruce Budworm
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The spruce budworm is a small, foliage-feeding caterpillar that periodically kills an immense amount of spruce and balsam fir in the Eastern States and Canada.

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» Four Billion Feet Of Beetle-Killed Spruce
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Ten years or so ago the Engelmann spruce forests in the higher Rocky Mountains of Colorado were a sight to behold.

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» The Key To Protection
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Until research developed information on pests of our forests and devised means of combating them, there was little of immediate practical value that could be gained from knowing where the pests occurred.

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» Insects In The Forest: A Survey
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/12/2008 | Environment | Unrated

NATURE has always used insects for her own purposes in forests.

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» The National Arboretum
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/11/2008 | Environment | Unrated

The National Arboretum in the District of Columbia was established by Act of Congress approved March 4, 1927.

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» Arboretums, Places Of Beauty And Science
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/11/2008 | Environment | Unrated

To the person who has a piece of ground, a few dollars, a love for trees and nature and beauty, a collector's instinct, and an interest in science, we should like to recommend that he start an arboretum.

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» Community Forests
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/7/2008 | Environment | Unrated

Community forests are the woodlands that are owned by the cities and townships, school districts, counties, or another public body in a State.

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» State Forests
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/6/2008 | Environment | Unrated

State forests have six uses. They are demonstrations of good forestry practices in growing and harvesting forest products.

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» Other Federal Forests
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 01/3/2008 | Environment | Unrated

BESIDES THE NATIONAL forests, which are the most extensive of the federally owned timber and watershed lands, eight other categories of Federal lands bear large forests.

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» The Administration Of National Forests
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 11/21/2007 | Environment | Unrated

Our national forests are big, complex, varied in the services they render and the land they cover, widely distributed, and diverse in use and possibility.

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» Forests Of Alaska
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 11/21/2007 | Environment | Unrated

When the United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, neither party to the transaction ascribed much value to the forests embraced in the purchase,...

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» Small Ranchers And The Forests
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 11/21/2007 | Environment | Unrated

From the 104 national forests near which they live in the West, operators of small ranches obtain many millions of board feet of timber products.

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» Pine Forests Of California
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 11/21/2007 | Environment | Unrated

The national forests of California have 7.7 million acres of land suitable for growing timber as the primary crop.

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» Ponderosa Pine In The Southwest
By Charles F. Brannan | Published 11/21/2007 | Environment | Unrated

From train or highway, the traveler in Arizona and New Mexico sees treeless mesas, deserts, some scattered woodlands, century-old habitations, the white gold of the sunshine, and the bright blue of the cloudless sky.

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