Field Notes of Forest Conditions. 



The following notes are the results of detailed examination of 

 the forests of New Jersey made during the progress of our studies. 

 For the purposes of this examination the forest was grouped into 

 the following classes : 



1. Brush or stump land, to include no areas intended to be 

 cleared and cultivated. 



2. Old clearings formerly cultivated, but now growing up to 

 timber. 



3. Young growth, in which class was included all timber less 

 than six inches diameter, the approximate age, size and height 

 being noted. 



4. Large timber, including all over six inches in diameter, the 

 diameter and height being noted as before. 



Without attempting any strict botanical classification, the 

 varieties of timber have been designated as follows : 



1. Deciduous, with the prevailing varieties indicated. 



2. Coniferous, classified as pine, cedar, hemlock, etc. 



3. Mixed deciduous and coniferous. 



Notes were kept of the general character of scattered growth 

 over lands under cultivation, also of the general condition of the 

 forested areas, and of any remarkably large trees, any original forest, 

 planted timber, brush land which seems incapable of producing 

 timber, the succession of growth, &c. Information was also col- 

 lected as to the value per acre of stump land, of twenty-years 

 or thirty years' growth of timber, and all heavy timber of various 

 kinds. We also took the testimony of reliable persons as to how 

 the amount of timber now standing compares with that of pre- 

 vious periods, and of how the growth on slopes of hills compares 

 with that in the valleys or on the top of plateaus. 



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