Annual Report of the Forest Commission of the State of New York, Volume 2The Commission, 1887 - Forests and forestry "Compendium of laws relative to the Adirondack wilderness from 1774-1894": 1893, v. 2. |
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... fires during the year . This subject is treated in detail , under its proper head in the following pages . At the very threshold of their work the Commissioners were con- fronted with the complicated and disagreeable duty of dealing ...
... fires during the year . This subject is treated in detail , under its proper head in the following pages . At the very threshold of their work the Commissioners were con- fronted with the complicated and disagreeable duty of dealing ...
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... FIRES . Another threatening agent in the destruction of forests , as is well known , is fire . Facts and statistics on this subject have been so often and widely circulated , and the causes , treatment and methods adopted for the ...
... FIRES . Another threatening agent in the destruction of forests , as is well known , is fire . Facts and statistics on this subject have been so often and widely circulated , and the causes , treatment and methods adopted for the ...
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... fires except for especial purposes , giving minute directions for building such fires as may be necessary , and directing how they shall be guarded and extinguished . Careless smokers and sportsmen are held responsible , under the rules ...
... fires except for especial purposes , giving minute directions for building such fires as may be necessary , and directing how they shall be guarded and extinguished . Careless smokers and sportsmen are held responsible , under the rules ...
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... fires , both having undoubtedly been largely instrumental in denuding and wasting the soil and drying up ( by exhaustion at certain seasons of the year ) the smaller tributary streams . This is noticeably the case in the Fulton Chain ...
... fires , both having undoubtedly been largely instrumental in denuding and wasting the soil and drying up ( by exhaustion at certain seasons of the year ) the smaller tributary streams . This is noticeably the case in the Fulton Chain ...
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... fire ; and third , the beetle . I regard the lumberman as the greatest destroyer , as both the fire and the borer - beetle follow him . I will give you the reason why I think so . The great burnt districts are in every case those lands ...
... fire ; and third , the beetle . I regard the lumberman as the greatest destroyer , as both the fire and the borer - beetle follow him . I will give you the reason why I think so . The great burnt districts are in every case those lands ...
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Page 152 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 35 - And this devastation is now become epidemical, that, unless some favourable expedient offer itself, and a way be seriously and speedily resolved upon for a future store, one of the most glorious and considerable bulwarks of this nation, will, within a short time, be totally wanting to it.
Page 69 - France, one can form no conception of those parched mountain gorges where not even a bush can be found to shelter a bird, where, at most, the wanderer sees in summer here and there a withered lavender, where all the springs are dried up, and where a dead silence, hardly broken by even the hum of an insect, prevails.
Page 69 - Vast deposits of flinty pebbles, many feet in thickness, which have rolled down and spread far over the plain, surround large trees, bury even their tops, and rise above them, leaving to the husbandman no longer a ray of hope. One can imagine no sadder spectacle than the deep fissures in the flanks of the mountains, which seem to have burst forth in eruption to cover the plains with their ruins. These gorges, under the influence of the sun which cracks and shivers to fragments the very rocks, and...
Page 152 - ... shall prevent or operate to prevent the free use of any road, stream or- water as the same may have been heretofore used, or as may be reasonably required in the prosecution of any lawful business.
Page 151 - All the lands now owned or which may hereafter be acquired by the State of New York, within the counties of Clinton, excepting the towns of Altona and Dannemora, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, Washington, Greene, Ulster, and Sullivan, shall constitute and be known as the forest preserve.
Page 85 - It is certain that a desolation like that which has overwhelmed many once beautiful and fertile regions of Europe, awaits an important part of the territory of the United States, unless prompt measures are taken to check the action of destructive causes already in operation.
Page 48 - ... life. As the forests are destroyed, the springs which flowed from the woods, and, consequently, the greater water-courses fed by them, diminish both in number and volume.
Page 49 - ... due in each case, says Senator Torrelli, of Italy, to the clearings around their feeders. A remarkable illustration of the fact that the clearing of hilly countries is likely to result in the complete failing of springs is given by Mr. Ney, who states that in the Provence, after all the olive trees, which there formed regular forests, had been frozen in 1822 and cut down, a great number of springs failed totally ; and...
Page 152 - ... powers now vested in the commissioners of the land office and in the comptroller, as to such of the said lands as are now owned by the State.