Discussion, Hotels said in response to 

 questions that to get height of trees 

 they used a Pauslnnan hypsonieter which 

 ver^r accurately determined the height of 

 every tree and to get deviation used the 

 tube; that tho3^ labeled and classified 

 each tree as dominant or co -dominant; 

 that looking to the futrore wellfaro of 

 the plot they somotii es removed a dom- 

 inant , good lie alt lay tree and left two 

 GO -dominants to toko its place; and that 

 the wood taken in the first thinning was 

 not markotable in that locality so they 

 don T t know that the thinning paid for 

 itself , 



1:50 - Method of Studying Actual Damage Done "by Fire, 

 Be suit of Study. 



GOLDSMITH: 



After a thorough examination of the " turned over 

 area a locality in which average strips for all conditions 

 could "be obtained was selected. The strips rim were so ' 

 taken as to include heavily timbered slopes where the fire 

 had killed a large part of the re; reduce ion and open forests 

 where th: "' had "been confined 'JO the litter on the ground 

 and had not even killed the seedlangs. In a di. it ion, the 

 areas where the fire killed the entire nature stand were 

 studied separately, and the area so destined obtained. 

 In taking the strips, surveys, the regular two 

 chain strip .:ae used, and the trees tallied according to 

 the damage they received, under the following classification 

 1. standaing dead trees; 8. fallen dead trees; 5. trees fire 

 scarred for the first time; 4. trees scarred in former fires; 



and 5. troes uninjured, 



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