RESULTS OF CUTTING AT NE-HA-SA-NE PARK, IN THE 



ADIRONDACKS ^ 



By B. a. Chandler 



Assistant Professor of forest Utilisation, Cornell University 



This study of the results of old cuttings on spruce growth and repro- 

 duction grew out of the sample-plot work which the sample-plot com- 

 mittee of the New York Section of the Society of American Foresters- 

 undertook last year in co-operation with Cornell University. The work 

 was conducted on the holdings of the Ne-ha-sa-ne Park Association at 

 the invitation of its superintendent and forester, F. A. Gaylord. This 

 park is the private hunting and fishing resort of Dr. W. S. Webb and 

 was cut over fOr spruce some fifteen to twenty years ago, according to 

 a general plan of management laid down by the present United States 

 Forester. Col. Henry S. Graves. '^ 



The purpose of this study was to determine the practical results of 

 this system of management. 



The data were collected this past summer by the strip-survey method, 

 combined with growth studies of individual trees where cutting was in 

 progress. The study was confined to the hardwood type, because it is 

 there that the most difficult problems of spruce management are found. 

 Two areas were studied: one lying southeast of the southerly portion 

 of Rock Lake and bounded by the lake, its outlet, and the southwest 

 line of the park. The other lay north of said lake and between the 

 inlet to Beaver Dam Pond and the westerly edge of a spruce cutting 

 which was in progress. Ten per cent of each area was covered by 

 strips, making 21.5 acres actually calipered on the first area and 15 

 acres on the second. 



In the field-work I was assisted by H. W. Maier and others. J. A. 

 Dimock assisted in the computation and preparation of the manuscript. 

 F. A. Gaylord generously assisted in the expense of carrying on this 

 work. 



Graves' object, as stated in his own words, was "to obtain for the 

 owner a large revenue from the timber, but at the same time leave the 



^ Paper delivered before the New York Section of the Society of American 

 Foresters, at Albany, January 22, 1919. 



■ See Journal of Forestry, Vol. XVI, No. 8, pp. 922-927, December, 1918. 



' Graves, Henry S. : Practical Forestry in the Adirondacks, U. S. Forest Serv- 

 ice, Bull. 26, 1899. 



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