forest is fully stocked either with excellent 

 stands of clear, straight and mature hard- 

 woods, hemlock and pine, or with magnificent 

 stands of younger trees of all ages, which, 

 from the point of view of forest management, 

 needs only to be carefully thinned. Where 

 there had been no repeated surface fires up 

 to the summer of 1908, and wherever seed 

 trees have been left, whether in the original 

 or cut-over forests, there was excellent repro- 

 duction. On the whole, conditions were very 

 satisfactory for maintaining a productive 

 forest. 



The principal object in lumbering has been 

 the removal of the white pine, the greater 

 part of which was in the center of the tract. 

 Yet more or less white pine is scattered 

 throughout the stands of hardwood and hem- 

 lock. 



Bad Lumbering Methods. 



The lumbering methods that have prevailed 

 can be judged by the character of the timber 

 left standing, quantity of merchantable ma- 

 terial which was left on the ground, the man- 

 ner in which timber is now being cut, and 

 the careless disposition of slash. In the fall 

 of 1908 these points were noted: 



There were seventy-six cork or white pine 

 logs on W. y* of N. E. # of bee. 21, T. 29 N., 

 R. 5 W., nearly all of which were 16 feet 

 long. These were cut in 1907 and left in 

 the woods. It was roughly estimated that 



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