METHOD OF A FOREST SURVEY AND ESTIMATE IN 

 NOVA SCOTIA. 



By Kenneth Mcr. Clark. 



During the summer, autumn, and winter of 191 1 it fell to me 

 to take charge of a survey and estimate done by Appleton and 

 Sewall Co., Foresters and Surveyors, of New York, for the 

 Davison Lumber Co., Ltd., of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. This 

 latter company, operating mills at Bridgewater and Hastings, 

 Nova Scotia, obtain their lumber from their holdings in Kings, 

 Queens, Annapolis, and Lunenburg counties ; and it was of part 

 of these lands that this survey and estimate was made. In all 

 the work covered about 200,000 acres, and was divided into two 

 separate jobs. The first covered about 120,000 acres, while the 

 second was of about 75,000 acres. 



On these areas in order to obtain a good record of the timber 

 in permanent and accurate form, to serve as a basis on which 

 to control logging operations, the lumber company desired a 

 rapid, yet thorough survey which should furnish a tolerably 

 accurate map, determine the extent of existing timbered lands, 

 locate waste lands, and give an estimate of the available timber. 

 Speed was desired in the work, because the information to be 

 obtained was wanted as a guide in the laying out of the opera- 

 tions for the following winter- 

 On the third of June I was sent with three other technical 

 men to Crossburn, the woods headquarters of the Davison Lum- 

 ber Company, to begin work. 



As soon as the existing maps of the 120,000 acre tract were 

 examined, it was apparent that our first work would be the sur- 

 vey of two main highways, one of which formed part of the 

 south boundary of the tract, and the other part of the east 

 boundary. Also level lines had to be run in order to establish 

 throughout the tract bench marks to which to tie aneroid bar- 

 ometer readings later. These things my companions did, trav- 

 ersing the roads with transit and stadia, and running level lines 

 on the same roads, on the Halifax and Southwestern Railroad, 

 which formed the west boundary, and on a tote road which ran 



