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ABOUT a quarter of a century has elapsed since bark-beetle infestations following fires in coniferous forests came under serious consideration outside European countries. The ideas and opinions then expressed, based admittedly on investigations which still had to stand the test of future corroboration, were at first treated with more or less open scorn by the professional forester both in the United States and in India, the two countries where attention was first paid to the matter. In the former country the commercial lumberer also regarded the scientific worker as a faddist. Of recent years, opinions have undergone a drastic change in both countries, and the present position and opinions held on this important subject are due to the patient work of the entomologist. In India, owing to the difference in climate in the plains, the matter is not confined to the coniferous forests of the mountainous regions, but has to be considered in its relation to the forests of broad-leaved deciduous species. The problem here, however, save perhaps in the native States, has not been complicated during the period alluded to above by the operations of the lumberer and his felling methods in the forest.
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Injury by Fire and Bark-beetle Attack. Nature 121, 602–603 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121602a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121602a0