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40 feet high; Waste land means tracts covered with a scrubby 

 growth of dwarfed trees, bushes, and briers; Denuded land con- 

 sists for the most part of abandoned clearings, or of areas cov- 

 ered with ferns, huckleberry bushes, or other small growth ; Wild 

 Meadows are clearings on which wild hay is cut each year and 

 includes beaver meadows ; Improved land is a term used by asses- 

 sors to denote farms or fields on which crops are raised, or have 

 been recently cultivated. 



Most of the lots are in scattered situations, a long distance 

 from the park, and cannot be properly watched or cared for with- 

 out going to considerable expense. If these outlying lands could 

 be sold the proceeds would purchase an equal, or greater acreage 

 within the park, where the holdings w r ould be better located, 

 would help to consolidate tracts already owned by the State, and 

 would be better adapted to forestry purposes. The timber lots, 

 though widely scattered, and small in area, would, when duly 

 advertised, bring large prices on account of their accessibility; 

 and even the denuded and burned tracts could be sold at fair 

 prkes for farming purposes. In short, it is better to transfer 

 this acreage to territory within the parks. 



ADIRONDACK MAP. 



Your attention is respectfully called to the need of another 

 edition of the Adirondack map, for which there has been a large 

 and constant demand since its first issue fifteen years ago. 



This map is indispensable in the work of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment, as it is the only one showing the landed allotment of 

 that entire region. The foresters and firewardens find it con- 

 venient, in fact absolutely necessary, in locating the State lots 

 and acquiring a knowledge of their boundaries in order to protect 



