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During the present administration the telephone and road system has 

 been improved greatly, and fire protection thereby strengthened. 



In 1914 the park had only four telephones on 18 miles of wire, giving 

 poor service, and 18 miles of road, only five of which were passable 

 for autos. Today 18 phones on 26 miles of wire connect logging camps, 

 watchmen's cabins and sporting camps with headquarters in an efficient 

 system, giving continuous service. There are 24 miles of road, 20 of 

 which are in good shape for motors. A 70-foot steel lookout tower 

 with a watchman on duty the entire fire season, connected by two 

 phone lines to headquarters, overlooks practically all the property. 



The owners of the park are to be congratulated upon sanctioning 

 the utilization of the over-mature timber. Owners of private pre- 

 serves, whether of large or small size, may well take a lesson from 

 Nehasane Park in this respect. Timber on private preserves has too 

 frequently been allowed to rot and the land to remain unproductive. 

 Owners capable of investing in and holding tracts of wooded land 

 are exactly the type of owners who should be growing timber crops. 



What has been said in regard to the methods of cutting and to the 

 silvicultural operations on Nehasane Park should not be construed as 

 necessarily applicable to the Adirondack forest region as a whole, since 

 it must be recognized that differences in the object of owners and in 

 the character of the land and timber may require different methods of 

 treatment. 



REFERENCES. 



1. Graves, H. S. Practical Forestry in the Adirondacks. Bulletin 26, Division 



of Forestry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Washington, 1899. 



2. Chandler, B. A. Results of Cutting at Nehasane Park, in the Adirondacks. 



Journal of Forestry, Vol. 17, 1919, p. 378-385. 



3. Graves, H. S. See reference number 1, p. 15. 



4. Graves, H. S. See reference number 1, p. 17-18. 



5. Linn, E. R. Silvical Systems in Spruce in Northern New Hampshire. Jour- 



nal of Forestry, Vol. 16, 1918, p. 897-908. 



6. Baker, H. P., and McCarthy, E. F. Fundamental Silvicultural Measures 



Necessary to Insure Forest Lands Remaining Reasonably Productive After 

 Logging. Journal of Forestry, Vol. 18, 1920, p. 18. 



7. McCarthy, E. F. Observations on Unburned Cutover Lands in the Adiron- 



dacks. Journal of Forestry, Vol. 17, 1919, p. 386-397. 



8. Churchill, H. L. An Example of Private Forestry in the Adirondacks. Jour- 



nal of Forestry, Vol. 17, 1919, p. 602. 



9. Bryant, R. C. Silviculture at Axton and in the Adirondacks Generally. Jour- 



nal of Forestry, Vol. 15, 1917, p. 891-895. 



