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... Lewis , Oneida , Saratoga , St. Lawrence , Warren , Washington , Greene , Ulster and Sullivan , except 1. Lands within the limits of any village or city , and 2. Lands not wild lands acquired by the State on foreclosure of mortgages ...
... Lewis , Oneida , Saratoga , St. Lawrence , Warren , Washington , Greene , Ulster and Sullivan , except 1. Lands within the limits of any village or city , and 2. Lands not wild lands acquired by the State on foreclosure of mortgages ...
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... Lewis , Oneida or Washington counties lie within the parks , and that no portion of Hamilton county is without the Adirondack park . These figures show that 75 per cent . of the area within the parks , con- stituting 1,134,631 acres ...
... Lewis , Oneida or Washington counties lie within the parks , and that no portion of Hamilton county is without the Adirondack park . These figures show that 75 per cent . of the area within the parks , con- stituting 1,134,631 acres ...
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... Lewis .. 1,380.32 2,201.43 1,119.63 15.00 Oneida . 2,193.00 1,979.04 1,173.02 St. Lawrence . 514.00 1,987.30 1,222.96 23,294.00 34,000.00 4,716.38 28,639.06 37.724.26 Saratoga . 5,412.00 1,912.94 374.60 2.00 Warren . Washington . Total ...
... Lewis .. 1,380.32 2,201.43 1,119.63 15.00 Oneida . 2,193.00 1,979.04 1,173.02 St. Lawrence . 514.00 1,987.30 1,222.96 23,294.00 34,000.00 4,716.38 28,639.06 37.724.26 Saratoga . 5,412.00 1,912.94 374.60 2.00 Warren . Washington . Total ...
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... Lewis . 433 52 8 Oneida . 7,716 116 357 8,189 476 2,000 357 2,833 11,022 St. Lawrence . Saratoga . 20,919 2,801 6,058 86,746 58,083 35,850 11,506 192,185 41,971 28,061 78,573 26,680 11,402 186,687 378,872 Washington . 110 97 135 342 52 ...
... Lewis . 433 52 8 Oneida . 7,716 116 357 8,189 476 2,000 357 2,833 11,022 St. Lawrence . Saratoga . 20,919 2,801 6,058 86,746 58,083 35,850 11,506 192,185 41,971 28,061 78,573 26,680 11,402 186,687 378,872 Washington . 110 97 135 342 52 ...
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... Lewis St. Lawrence . Saratoga . 16,010 2,325 172 42 , 133 5,857 7,129 6,585 1,000 20,571 62,704 15,670 9,931 12,809 85 38,495 18,014 10,874 10,775 2,747 2,204 44,614 83,109 17,129 ] 2,327 5,7201 25,176 5,6601 17,001 11,350 34,011 59.187 ...
... Lewis St. Lawrence . Saratoga . 16,010 2,325 172 42 , 133 5,857 7,129 6,585 1,000 20,571 62,704 15,670 9,931 12,809 85 38,495 18,014 10,874 10,775 2,747 2,204 44,614 83,109 17,129 ] 2,327 5,7201 25,176 5,6601 17,001 11,350 34,011 59.187 ...
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Acres Acres Adirondack park approximately balsam fir Beech Birch Maple Big Indian Birch Maple Ash board feet breast-high C. R. PETTIS camp sites cent Cone Rock Conservation Commission DIVISION Constitution COUNTY Within park D. B. H. Balsam Delaware DENUDED LAND diameter DIVISION OF LANDS Esopus Creek Essex estimated feet B. M. forest cover forest description forest management Forest Preserve Forest Service Forester Forester Forestry Fulton Grand total Greene Herkimer Lewis Lake George land and timber LANDS AND FORESTS Lawrence lease lumbering Maple Ash Bass material MISCELLANEOUS HARDWOODS NON-MERCHANTABLE FOREST Oneida open camps parcel park Outside park park Total Clinton Preserve counties quantity ridge type Saratoga secured slope type Spruce Balsam Hemlock stand table stock table STUMPAGE M BD timber tion topography Total Adirondacks Total Catskills TOTAL VOLUME TOWN OF SHANDAKEN Ulster Ulster county Warren Washington wood laneous yellow birch YORK Conservation Commission
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Page 1 - 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 9 - ... Hudson, but is impounded at the Ashokan dam and constitutes the main source of water supply for New York city. The slope ranges from medium to precipitous; the aspect on the north side of the ridge is mainly northeast and on the south side southwest. The structure of the Catskill * mountains is simple. The strata lie almost flat, with slight dips to the west, northwest and southwest in various places. Shale commonly outcrops on the lower slopes of the valleys, but sandstones occur higher in the...
Page 7 - The cut is approximately five times as much as the annual growth, and consumption is at least sixteen times the growth. The question of the source of supply of our necessary wood materials is one that must be seriously considered. Our demands are great and, under present methods, will soon lead to exhaustion, but if the resources of the State are properly developed the necessary supply can be produced. The present use of the Forest Preserve is protective and aesthetic. The practice of proper forestry...
Page 4 - Once the land is placed under systematic forest management, this amount could be secured annually without reducing the forest itself. It means taking the interest on the wood principal. The quantity would be further increased by ultimate growth on what are now non-merchantable areas and through reforesting of denuded lands.
Page 3 - There are large areas of virgin forests (estimated 70,000 acres), also extensive areas of lumbered lands (estimated 1.130,000 acres) upon which the greater proportion of timber is mature and is not increasing in volume or value. There are other areas covered with poplar, a tree that reaches maturity in a comparatively short time, which is very valuable for pulp and other...
Page 13 - ... becomes prominent because of its regular form and development which contrasts strongly with the short boles and irregular crowns of the hardwoods found here. (See Plate II.) Specimens of black cherry are frequent but they are of too poor form to be of any value. The remainder of the stand consists of about an equal distribution of beech, birch and maple, all of DBH Balsam Hemlock Hi :•.-!. Birch Maple Ash Basswood Miscellaneous Total 7 8 9...
Page 7 - ... use of the forest — points that come close to many private owners' desires. The best examples in this State are the lumbering operations as conducted on the parks of the Webb and Whitney estates. The effects of lumbering are scarcely visible to-day; these forests have cleaner floors and are freer from debris than similar areas on State land. In fact, the lumbering operations have improved the appearance of these forests, for the dead, fallen, and diseased trees have been removed, and yet the...