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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. FORESTRY REFORM MEASURES ADOPTED BY OTHER STATES. By Ernest Brunt-ken, Secy. State Forestry Commission. The states of the union in which more substantial progress has been made towards a business-like treatment, of forestry resoiirces than in any other are New York and Pennsylvania. The secretary of the commission was sent to acquaint himself personally with the conditions existing and measures adopted in those states, and found that while in many details the steps there taken cannot be imitated under Wisconsin conditions, in the main the circumstances of those states are the same as here, and substantially the same remedies which have served there will be useful to correct existing evils in Wisconsin. The secretary takes this opportunity to express his thanks to the state officials and other gentlemen in the states visited by him, for the many courtesies extended to him during his investigations. The state of Kew York is distinguished above many others for the comparatively small loss it has, of late years, suffered from forest fires. This is dne in part to natural conditions, in part to adequate and well-enforced legislation. The forests of New York, as is well known, are practically all located in the region of the Adirondack Mountains. They are prevailingly composed of 'broad-leaved species, especially birches an.d maple, but there is a very considerable amount of spruce and fir intermingled with the hardwood trees. The spruce is the principal tree furnishing commercial timber. Of white pine there is practically no merchantable supply left; but in many places young pine was olserved growing up vigorously. It is said that pine comes up on abandoned farm clearings, while in places where the original growth was destroyed by fire white birch and aspen are th...
Report For 1907 and 1908 includes State Forestry Laws, 1905-07.
Report For 1907 and 1908 includes State Forestry Laws, 1905-07.
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