 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 444 páginas
...to facilitate the movements of the flocks, and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...all destructive fires that range the Sierra forests. ON SELF-FERTILIZATION ; BY THOMAS M 1 :i . 1 1 \ \. 253 Some years ago a law was enacted by the California... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 444 páginas
...to facilitate the movements of the flocks, and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...so do lumbermen, but the fires of the sheepmen or Huttoneers, form more than ninety per cent, of all destructive fires that range the Sierra forests.... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1877 - 442 páginas
...to facilitate the movements of the flocks, and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...the other, and with the exception of the resinous Finns contorta, Sequoia suffers most of all. Indians burn off the underbrush in certain localities... | |
 | John Muir - 1894 - 406 páginas
...to facilitate the movements of the flocks and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...localities to facilitate deer-hunting, mountaineers and lumbermen carelessly allow their campfires to run ; but the fires of the sheepmen, or muttoneers,... | |
 | John Muir - 1894 - 410 páginas
...localities to facilitate deer-hunting, mountaineers and lumbermen carelessly allow their campfires to run; but the fires of the sheepmen, or muttoneers, form...all destructive fires that range the Sierra forests. It appears, therefore, that notwithstanding our forest king might live on gloriously in Nature's keeping,... | |
 | John Muir - 1917 - 354 páginas
...to facilitate the movements of the flocks and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...localities to facilitate deerhunting, mountaineers and lumbermen carelessly allow their camp-fires to run; but the fires of the sheepmen, or muttoneers,... | |
 | John Muir, Terry Gifford - 1996 - 940 páginas
...are burned to improve the pasturage. The entire belt of forests is thus swept by fire, from one end of the range to the other; and, with the exception of the resinous Pinus contorta, the sequoia suffers most of all. Steps are now being taken towards the creation of a national park... | |
 | Omer Call Stewart - 2002 - 388 páginas
...such as the following published in 1894 by John Muir (377, p. 199): The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range...the underbrush in certain localities to facilitate deer hunting, mountaineers and lumbermen carelessly allow their campfires to run; but the fires of... | |
 | Scott Herring - 2004 - 228 páginas
...places them in dubious company. In their small way they participate in the destruction of the forests. "Indians burn off the underbrush in certain localities to facilitate deer-hunting, mountaineers and lumbermen carelessly allow their campfires to run; but the fires of the sheepmen, or muttoneers,... | |
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Running fires are set everywhere, with a view to clearing the ground of prostrate trunks, to facilitate the movements of the flocks and improve the pastures. The entire forest belt is thus swept and devastated from one extremity of the range to the other,... 