Excerpt from Forests and Forestry: A Letter Addressed to Verplanck Colvin, Esq., Superintendent of the Adirondack Surveys, on the Importance of Forests, Their Management in Germany, With a Short Review of the Historical Development of Forestry When I had the pleasure of meeting you in the Adirondacks in the Autumn of 1877, our conversation turned to the importance of preserving the forests of those regions, and I promised then to give you some de tails ou the scientific management of forests in Germany. 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.