VI 
THE BASIS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT 
It would be unfair to condemn all lumbering because 
the present method is not wholly right. The qualities 
of the Spruce, and the general circumstances which 
surround its utilization in the Adirondacks, make it 
plain that better methods are possible from every point 
of view. It is the purpose of practical forestry so to 
modify the present systems of cutting that the harm 
now done may be avoided and the removal of the old 
crop be of permanent benefit to the forest which re- 
mains. At the same time the question of revenue is 
kept prominently in view. 
Better methods of lumbering affect the forest chiefly 
through the kind and amount of the reproduction and 
growth which follow cutting, and through the condi- 
tions under which the trees develop to marketable size. 
They affect the owner through the sustained and 
increased value of his property and its yield. 
YOUNG GROWTH IN THE FOREST 
Attention has been called, in the chapters on Repro- 
duction and Tolerance, to the large amount of small 
Spruce found throughout the forest. Not only in those 
portions where Spruce is the prevailing species, but 
also on hardwood lands, groups and single specimens 
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