SILVICL-LTURE AT AXTOX AND IN THE ADIRONDACKS 

 GENERALLY 



By R. C. Bryant 



Professor of LnmbcrivA^, Yale School of Forestry 



On August 31 a conference was held at Tupper Lake, New York, 

 by several Canadian and United States foresters, on the property at 

 one time controlled by the former New York State College of Forestry, 

 at Cornell University. 



The purpose of this conference was to study the forest conditions 

 on these lands which have resulted from the work done by the College 

 of Forestry during the period from 1898 to 1903, inclusive. Those 

 present included Dr. B. E. Fernow and Dr. C. D. Howe, of the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto; Clyde Leavitt, forester for the Commission of 

 Conservation of Canada ; R. D. Craig, of the same commission ; Ell- 

 wood Wilson, forester for the Laurentide Company, Grand Mere, 

 Quebec; A. B. Recknagel, forester, Empire State Forest Products 

 Association; S. A. Gaylord, forester at the Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park, and 

 R. Stubbo, his assistant ; Professors Spring and Bentley, of the Cornell 

 Forest School ; Professor R. C. Bryant, of the Yale School of Forestry, 

 and the six students who were in the Cornell summer forestry camp 

 near St. Regis Falls. 



The conference was arranged by the Canadian foresters, who are 

 interested in a study of similar provincial forest lands in Quebec. 



The work on the college forest which was inspected comprised plan- 

 tations and logged-over areas, both planted and unplanted. 



The problem the college had to meet was the management of a 

 mixed forest culled for softwood and with an inferior hardwood stand, 

 for which there was no exi.sting local market. 



Dr. Fernow created a hardwood market by persuading a cooperage 

 plant and an alcohol plant to locate at Tupper Lake and entering into 

 a contract to annually supply them with a given quantity of wood for 

 the above purposes. 



Because of a lack of funds for the development of a proper trans- 

 portation system to log the areas far removed from places which were 

 used for summer pleasure purposes, the logging operators were 

 started in the Upper Saranac Lake region. 



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