Excerpt from Government Forestry Abroad; The Present Condition of the Forests on the Public Lands; Practicability of an American Forest Administration Germany, France and Switzerland have been dwelt upon more at length. Both because forestry has reached a wider development there, and because the writer can speak concerning them from personal observation. The history of the forest has developed itself along similar lines in all the countries of Europe. Its course in the central part of the Continent, which may be taken as fairly representative of what it was else where, is thus brie y summarized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."