8 Explanation and Acknowledgment 
Information on forest conditions, lumbering, manufacturing, 
and utilization was secured in all parts of the State by Ray- 
mond J. Hoyle, of the New York State College of Forestry, 
and R. V. Reynolds, of the Forest Service, and these men 
jointly prepared the text. Credit is due to Albert H. Pierson 
and Wilbur Mattoon of the Forest Service, who contributed 
assistance respectively in the completion of the tabulations and 
the discussion of farm woodlands. 
In view of the fact that this is a revision and not a new 
project, the text of the previous edition has been adopted 
liberally, wherever it was found applicable. 
Similar reports were at one time prepared for all of the 
important lumber-consuming States, in cooperation with the 
Forest Service. New York is, however, the first cooperating 
State to revise her report of the wood-using industries. 
