NOTES 



An Example op Private; Forestry in the Adirondacks 



In the spring of 1910, Finch, Pruyn & Company, operating lumber, 

 pulp, and paper mills at Glens Falls, on the Hudson River, N. Y., 

 decided to employ a technically trained forester. Their holdings in 

 the Adirondacks comprised roughly 150,000 acres on the Hudson, 

 Schroon, Cedar, Boreas, and Sacandaga Rivers, about 20,000 acres 

 being first-growth spruce, hemlock, and pine, and the balance second- 

 growth softwoods and large hardwoods. Austin Cary, of the U. S. 

 Forest Service, who was at that time Superintendent of Forests for 

 New York State, was instrumental in deciding on the choice of a for- 

 ester. 



A talk with the management made it clear that what they considered 

 essential was a valuation survey of the entire holdings, from which 

 would result : 



(i) A system of maps showing timber and topography on a reason- 

 ably large and entirely uniform scale. 



(2) A written report giving detailed and accurate information con- 

 cerning merchantable and young timber on each watershed area or 

 logging unit. 



(3) Stand and yield tables for each commercial species. 



(4) Recommendations for logging operations. 



The timber sheets were to show the location and acreage of virgin 

 forest, cuts, burns and windfalls, with dates, and description of remain- 

 ing growth ; also placing all trails, dams, camps, and telephone lines. 

 These maps were to be kept constantly up to date and, with the stand 

 and yield tables, furnish a correct and classified inventory of raw 

 material. 



In order to supply the mills, it was deemed necessary to cut about 

 20,000,000 feet board measure annually, besides some logs purchased 

 and wood shipped in from Canada. 



Two years were spent in surveying and mapping the lands, working 

 up the data on stand and growth, and getting the working plans readv 

 for use. The United States Geological Survey quadrangles served 

 as the basis for topographic maps, but were enlarged to a scale of 

 four inches to the mile. 



It was, and is, the policy of this corporation to consider forestry 



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