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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off. Doc. 



Adams, 



Bedford, ... 

 Cameron, .. 



Centre 



Clearfield, .. 



Clinton 



Cumberland, 

 Dauphin, 

 Elk, 



Franklin, 



Fulton 



Huntingdon, 



Juniata, 



Lackawanna, 

 Lycoming, .. 



Mifflin 



Monroe, 



Perry 



Pike", 



Potter 



Snyder 



Tioga 



Union, 



Wyoming, 



County. 



12,170 



9,935 



74,576 



75,463 



50,587 



108,476 



2,852 



3,353 



8,263 



39,530 



6,189 



54,184 



1,909 



2,853 



69,116 



55,492 



6,171 



17,683 



53,210 



91,587 



17,219 



49,758 



50,154 



1,176 



189.6 



88 

 148.54 



10 

 120 



55 



81 



93 



"54.5' 



25 

 159 



16 



147 

 15.35 

 95.9 

 51 



136.3 

 75.9 

 86.6 



120 

 78.8 



152.6 



144 



861,919 



3.09 



You will notice one otlier fact in connection v/ith this map; that 

 the State at this time owns no land in the drainage basin of the Ohio 

 River. It is very important that reserves be acquired in the western 

 portion of the State where the denudation is greater than anywhere 

 else. The reason for this is that at present the State will purchase 

 land only in fee simple, and in the western part of the State this 

 is not yet possible because of the soft coal and gas interests. I have 

 no doubt that in time we will have to take these lands, buying the 

 surface rights only and allowing the coal and gas leases to remain. 

 The same forest effects may be secured by the purchase of the sur- 

 face rights, leaving the coal and gas ownership where they now are. 



During this year the Department has paid a great deal of atten- 

 tion to its Forest Nm-series. The first of our nurseries was at Mont 

 Alto. This has now been increased to seven acres, and we find ex- 

 cellent results. It was soon found that one nursery could not supply 

 tli|t demands made upon it, so a second one was started at Grreen- 

 wood, Huntingdon county, and a third at Asaph, in Tioga county. 

 At Greenwood, there are five acres, and at Asaph, twenty acres, so 

 that we have over thirty acres of forest nursery trees to be planted 

 on the forest reserves of the State. There are places where tree 

 cutting has been so close, or damage by fire so serious, that there 

 is no tree life left in the soil. The trees will not reproduce them- 

 selves from the stumps, whi(;h have been so thoroughly burned that 

 they have no power of reproduction left within themselves. T'wo 

 years ago the Forestry Department seriousl.y considered, thoroughly 

 discussed, and then approved the proposition that the State For 

 estry Department should grow seedling trees for distribution at 



