INSPECTION, SUPERVISION, AND CONTROL OF PRIVATE 

 FORESTRY MEASURES: METHODS AND COST ^ 



By a. B. Recknagki. 



Forester and Secretary, Empire State Forest Products Association 



The natural difficulties of this subject are increased by the fact 

 that, when preparing this paper, I had no knowledge of just what 

 private forestry measures Dean Baker would recommend in his open- 

 ing paper. 



I shall, therefore, confine myself to a rather brief presentation of the 

 ownership conditions in the State, particularly in the two chief for- 

 ested regions, the Adirondacks and the Catskills, and then consider 

 what organization the State would need if each private owner of 500 

 or more acres of timberland were to operate under a working plan for 

 continuous fores_t production. 



We owe the figures on ownership, which I shall submit, to the 

 timber census conducted by the War Committee of the Society of 

 American Foresters, in co-operation with various agencies. This 

 census shows that there are about 300 owners of over 500 contiguous 

 acres of timberland in New York State. Of these we have more or 

 less complete reports from 171 in the Adirondacks and 58 in the 

 Catskills.' Besides this there are 52 reporting owners scattered 

 through other regions of the State. Regarding size of holdings, the 

 conditions are as follows : 



^ Delivered before the New York Section of the Society of American For- 

 esters, at Wanakena, X. Y., July 29-31, 1019. 



"The .Adirondack counties are: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, 

 Herkimer, Lewis, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, and Warren. The Catskill counties 

 are: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. 



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