French Forests and Forestry: Tunisia, Algeria, Corsica, with a Translation of the Algerian Code of 1903

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J. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1917 - 238 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 196 - State and individuals, that is in criminal cases, a new right, not only in the interest of the State but also in the interest of every member of the State, to have punishment inflicted, subject to pardon.
الصفحة 3 - Constantine as secondary centers ; Corsica, Ajaccio. .There is much to learn in Tunisia along the lines of extensive organization ; permanent improvements ; forestation ; protection against sand, wind, and climate; fire protection, particularly as relating to fire lines, and modifications of the customary cutting systems made necessary by lack of transportation and low stumpage prices. In Tunisia there are two types of administration — an intensive form for the valuable cork oak forests, and a...
الصفحة 4 - ... interior settlements are of protective value since cultivated land forms admirable fire lines. Settlers living within forest boundaries are an asset when fire must be controlled. There can be no grazing on a forest for six years after a fire, and railroad rights-of-way must be cleared of inflammable debris and, if necessary, additional fire lines constructed parallel to the track. There can be no deforestation in reserved forests, unless the wood is cut for use in protection against erosion,...
الصفحة 11 - TUNIS, tu'nis (AFRIKIYA), North Africa one of the old Barbary States on the Mediterranean coast, formerly tributary to Turkey, and now a French protectorate, bounded on the north and east by the Mediterranean Sea, on the south by Tripoli and on the west by Algeria. It extends about 400 miles from north to south, 150 miles from east to west and has an area of 38,450 square miles. The coast is indented by the three large gulfs of Tunis, Hammamet and Gabes. It is bordered by a low, sandy and desert...
الصفحة 9 - ... an acre or two so that the result is an uneven-aged forest by groups. The methods of determining the rotation and estimating the yield are similar to those in France; in Corsica, the methods are, however, less intensive. The dangers of over-cutting, owing to slack regulation in past years, are admirably illustrated by many of the Corsican forests where to-day one finds the growing stock depleted and exhausted. In many respects the sales conditions contained in the sale contracts are similar to...

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