Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Preliminary Report on the Forestry of the Mississippi Valley: And Tree Planting on the Plains
Nebraska, as opened for settlement, was almost entirely destitute of timber. The supply was confined to the belt along the Shifting banks of the Missouri, largely composed of willows and cottonwoods, with a hard growth in the bluffs and the ravines which intersect them. At the mouth of the Platte was a heavy body of cottonwood, and along the banks of that stream, where it was entered by tributaries, were groves of white and burr oak in area from 100 to 500 acres. Within the original limits of the Omaha land district, containing acres, and comprising the most heavily timbered district of the State, the original plats showed but acres of timber.
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