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P16： Modern man has cleared the forests for farmland and for wood, and has also carelessly burned them. More than that, though, he has also interfered with the invisible bonds between the living things in the forest. There are many examples of this kind of destruction. The harmfulness of man’s interference can be seen in what happened many years ago in the forest of the Kaibab plateau of northern Arizona. Man tried to improve on the natural web of forest life and ruined it instead. The Kaibab had a storybook forest of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, white fir, blue and Engelmann spruce. In 1882 a