74 I'oresiry Quarterly. 



"A Working Plan for the Woodlands of the New Haven Water 

 Company." By Ralph C. Hawley, Assistant Professor of For- 

 estry, Yale University. Yale Forest School — Bulletin 3. New 

 Haven, Yale University Press, 191 3, 8 Vo., 30 pp., i map. 



It is refreshing to read a forest working plan which has been 

 working in the forest for some years. The title page explains 

 that the plan is "prepared after five years of forest practice," 

 and the text is full of meat as regards things that have been 

 done, and of helpful suggestions in and between the lines to 

 those of us who are trying to do something with hardwoods 

 and white pine in the northeast. A managed forest area of 

 about 8,000 acres, in the midst of one of the most densely popu- 

 lated regions of the United States, yet in a section about one- 

 half of which is forested; with unusual markets because of a 

 wide variety of manufactures; handicapped by the fact that the 

 holdings are widely scattered in many separated and irregular 

 blocks, and by the further fact that a large part of the area 

 either is in the younger age classes, not yet merchantable, or is 

 open land to be planted — here is a combination which makes 

 the working plan one of real interest to those who are located 

 where intensive forestry is possible. And to others, working 

 where "we might as well forget for the time being most of what 

 we learned in the forest school," it should be an earnest of good 

 things that, with patience, will come to us as American foresters. 



The bulletin should be placed in the hands of every Water 

 Company and every City Water Board in the country. Lands 

 permanently controlled for the purpose of protecting potable 

 waters offer so exceptional an opportunity for the practice of 

 forestry, even under adverse economic conditions, that in this 

 field should come one of the next substantial developments in 

 forestry. The present low financial returns from the New Ha- 

 ven property, as described in the working plan, may at first 

 thought be discouraging to officials who may become interested. 

 In reality, however, these figures are not discouraging when one 

 considers the fact that the lands were in such unproductive con- 

 dition at the start, and that the property must be held anyway, 

 whether or not forestry is practised. In reading the bulletin with 

 the idea of using it to incite the interest of water companies in 

 forestry, one cannot help but wish that some attempt had been 



