PREFACE V 
of it laid before the Hon. William C. Whitney 
and Mr. Patrick Moynehan met with their approval, 
and led to its introduction on land contiguous to the 
Park, belonging to Mr. Whitney and operated jointly 
by Mr. Whitney and Mr. Moynehan. An account of 
the detailed working-plans under which this work is 
being done, together with the results of the first year’s 
cut, will be published early in the coming year by the 
Division of Forestry, United States Department of 
Agriculture, by which the plans were prepared, and 
under whose supervision they are being carried out. 
The total area now being managed in the Adirondacks 
under the plans of the Division is slightly more than 
100,000 acres. 
I wish to express in this place my high sense of the 
public spirit and practical wisdom which led Dr. Webb 
to sustain the investigation whose results are now pub- 
lished, and to approve and apply the plans of work 
which it has produced. My sincere thanks are also 
due to Mr. Edward M. Burns, Manager of Ne-Ha-Sa- 
Ne Park, for his unfailing interest and assistance, and 
to the men to whose constant and loyal efforts whatever 
has been accomplished is so largely due. 
GIFFORD PINCHOT. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 24, 1898. 
