Bulletin ..., Volumes 11-12 |
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... amount of money recently expended by New York City in building a water supply reservoir upon that stream . The general distribution of the trees in this type by volume and number is shown in the stand table and the stock table for the ...
... amount of money recently expended by New York City in building a water supply reservoir upon that stream . The general distribution of the trees in this type by volume and number is shown in the stand table and the stock table for the ...
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... amount of land which has been burned over by fires . This area is now covered with a thicket of yellow birch in the small pole and sapling stages , other species being almost entirely absent . While this form of cover will afford ...
... amount of land which has been burned over by fires . This area is now covered with a thicket of yellow birch in the small pole and sapling stages , other species being almost entirely absent . While this form of cover will afford ...
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... Amount and kinds of timber . 2. Value of the material . 3. Quantity of camp sites , and their location . 4. General description of the land and timber . Your careful assistance is necessary in preparing this data . In order to secure ...
... Amount and kinds of timber . 2. Value of the material . 3. Quantity of camp sites , and their location . 4. General description of the land and timber . Your careful assistance is necessary in preparing this data . In order to secure ...
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... amount , kinds and quality of timber found upon these lands will be of particular interest to some , and of general in- terest to all . These facts , together with the cost of lumbering , determine the value of this State property ...
... amount , kinds and quality of timber found upon these lands will be of particular interest to some , and of general in- terest to all . These facts , together with the cost of lumbering , determine the value of this State property ...
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... amount of interesting information and deserve careful perusal . CAMP SITES The constitutional restrictions do not prohibit the great forest region from being used as a playground , a place for recreation and health resort , but do ...
... amount of interesting information and deserve careful perusal . CAMP SITES The constitutional restrictions do not prohibit the great forest region from being used as a playground , a place for recreation and health resort , but do ...
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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...