Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — Forest Areas in North America. [ARTICLE]

Forest Areas in North America.

The forest area of all the British possessions in America is estimated at about 800,000,000 acres. The settJer has cut his way into t he fringe of the vast woodland, but his depredations are nothing as compared with the terrific scourge of fire which has rampaged through it at different times. The United States has about 450,000,000 acres of forest, but this is being rapidly depleted by the ax and by destructive fires. The Government is now investigating means to prevent or control the latter.