FORESTRY
GENERAL FORESTRY
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Question
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America’s eastern forests were originally cleared to produce lumber for ships, logs for ____, and fields to be farmed.
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homes
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buildings
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cabins
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hardwood
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Coniferous forests are the most suitable for lumbering as the trees occur in pure stands, which makes it easy to locate and extract the valuable species of timber.
Detailed explanation-2: -Early settlers were attracted to the heavy forests of pine, oak, maple and beeches, all of which furnished wood for tools and homes. The colonists prized the abundant red cedar for cabins and tools while Native Americans built canoes from large trees and extracted medicines from the wild black cherry and other plants.
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