The Stanislaus And Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves And Adjacent Territory

Author : George Bishop Sudworth
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781458906151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Stanislaus and Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves and Adjacent Territory written by George Bishop Sudworth and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CXIII. B). The riving of shakes, which are a common substitute for shingles, is an old and important industry. A very large number of ordinary dwellings and other buildings throughout the region are roofed and a great many sided also with this material. The newer buildings of the larger towns, especially those near railroad commu nications, are roofed with sawed shingles, but prior to the advent of railroads in the foothill region, shakes were the only roofing material used. Hound mining timber and lagging are derived entirely from yellow and Jeffrey pine, while shakes are made almost entirely from sugar pine, yellow pine and white fir being seldom used. FOREST LAND. Seventy-five or X(i per cent of this region is more or less wooded. In traversing this area from the lowest to the highest timber line there are three natural divisions which can be made in the forest land. These are: First, a narrow belt of thinly stocked woodland, occupying the foothills and ranging from an elevation of about 500 feet up to about 2,000 feet; second, a broader, more or less dense and important belt of timber forest, extending from about 2,000 feet elevation up to 6.000 feet; third, a belt of open, less important timber forest, ranging from about 6,000 feet elevation up to 8,500 and 9,500 feet. These higher elevations represent the variation of timber line. For convenience these divisions may be termed the lower, middle, arid upper timber belts. The lower or foothill belt merges on the west into rolling grass lands with only very scattered tree growth, forming whore this practically disappears an irregular line running in a northwest-southeast direction. Tongues of the lower tree belt extend eastward into the middle belt, forming where they terminate an equally irregular line. The line of ...