THE PLANTING OF WHITE PINE IN 

 NEW ENGLAND. 



INTRODUCTION. 

 WHITE PINE PLANTING COMMERCIALLY FEASIBLE. 



Destructive methods of lumbering, forest fires, and the inability of 

 white pine to reproduce in the intense shade of broadleaf trees have 

 obliterated the great white pine forests of the East. Immense areas 

 of land formerly clothed with the richest forest are now barren wastes, 

 or are covered with comparatively worthless woods. The increasing 

 value of lumber and the worthlessness of a great part of this forest 

 land for other purposes make the restoration of these forests an impor- 

 tant economic consideration. A study of planted white pine in New 

 England shows planting to be practical not only for States and corpo- 

 rations, but for the private landowner as well. 



RANGE FOR PLANTING. 



The range for the planting of white pine in the United States is from 

 Maine to the Dakotas, and south to the Missouri and Ohio rivers and 

 southern Pennsylvania, and in the Appalachian Mountains to Alabama 

 and Georgia. It may in some cases be carried beyond these limits to 

 parts of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, 

 Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and eastern Kansas and Nebraska. White 

 pine is especially suited for planting on the cleared and cut-over areas 

 of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and 

 the Appalachian Mountain region. 



WHERE PLANTING IS ADVANTAGEOUS. 



White pine may at present be advantageously used for planting on 

 watersheds, on sand barrens and seaside dunes, on bare lands and 

 worn-out pastures, on cut-over land, and for woodlots. 



WATERSHED PLANTING. 



Many large towns and cities store their water supply in lakes or 

 reservoirs, which collect and hold the surface drainage water. When 

 the streams upon which they depend have bare watersheds, they flow 

 in torrents and are wasted in the spring, but soon become exhausted 



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