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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



December 



lots in the Piedmont Plateau have 

 availed themselves of the offer of the 

 Forest Service and have had their 

 woodlands examined, and are in con- 

 sequence carrying out a policy of ra- 

 tional forest management. Little in- 

 terest as yet, however, has been dis- 

 played by the large timberland owners 

 of the Appalachian Region, and no 

 forest working plans have been pre- 

 pared in this section. Intensive lum- 

 bering, prevalence of fires, and slow- 

 ness of tree growth in this region are 



portant one. The work was com- 

 menced early in the year 1900, when 

 necessary forest experts were furnish- 

 ed and their salaries paid by the For- 

 est Service, while all traveling and 

 living expenses of the field party were 

 defrayed by the state Geological Sur- 

 since, and up to the present date the 

 forests of nine out of the twenty-three 

 counties in Maryland have been ex- 

 amined and the wood lands carefully 

 mapped. Reports on three of the 

 counties have been published by the 



Cut and Culled Forest Hemlock Lands, Castleman River, Garrett County, Maryland. 



great hindrances to the adoption of 

 private forestry. Some forestry work 

 has been done on small tracts in the 

 Coastal Plain, but not as much as in 

 the Piedmont Region. Forest condi- 

 tions in this section are especially 

 bright for private forest management. 

 The co-operation between the For- 

 est Service and the Maryland Geolog- 

 ical Survey was brought about by Dr. 

 William Bullock Clark, state geolo- 

 gist. It has been his desire to develop 

 all the economic resources of the state, 

 of which the forest is naturally an im- 



Survey and reports on the others ex- 

 amined are in preparation. It is hoped 

 in this way finally to have a complete 

 forest map of the state, together with 

 a knowledge of what sort of forest 

 management is suitable for the many 

 different forest conditions met with. 

 This knowledge should prove very 

 beneficial to private forest owners in 

 the proper management of their wood 

 lands. 



Another line of forest work done in 

 Maryland is that of special investiga- 

 tions carried on in the state by the 



