Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from When Fire Is Banished From the Land of the White Oak
In Arkansas, in a vast rugged highland lying between the White River on the north and the Arkansas River on the south is the home of the White oak. Along this divide country, covering the head waters of the streams tributary to the two great rivers, lies the Ozark National Forest, established by the Federal Government for the purpose of growing timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States. The Forest Service, recognizing the supremacy of the white oak in this region, has dedicated this national forest to the task of growing White oak timber for the Nation.
High quality white oak can not be grown in a day, even in this land of long days and long months of sunshine and rain. But with fire banished from the woods, the leaf litter allowed to accumulate and hold the moisture, and with regular cutting Operations to give room for the growth of the best trees, white oak can be grown, steadily and at a satisfactory rate. And the nation must have high-quality white oak. It needs it for wagon stock, for furniture, for ?ooring, and for tight cooperage and other purposes for which no Other wood will quite meet the need.
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