PAPER COMPANY'S FORESTRY PRACTICE 



By B. A. CHAXDLER 

 Assistant State Forester of J'ermont 



Champlain Rea mpany 



which is a land holding company 

 : the International Paper Corn- 

 par. -~<ing a very progressive stand 

 in f restry in Vermont. It is carrying 

 on three main li: : rk; fire pro- 

 tection, nursery and planting work, and 

 marking their timber for cutting. 



The tire protection work : oasts I 

 cooperation with the State in ever}- j. 

 sible way and in independent patrol 

 work. 



Their planting policy is very pr gi 

 sive. For the last eight or ten ye - 

 the Company has been buying aban- 

 doned farms which were coming ut I 

 spruce and hardwoods. It i~ 

 mated that it has at present about '- 

 000 acres of open land to be planted 

 connected with these farms. Besides 

 there will probably be about 1 :res 

 each year cut over where it will be 

 impossible to get natural reproduction. 

 For the past three years including 

 this coming spring, it has purchased 

 and planted about 100.000 Norway 

 spruce in Vermont. It maintains a 

 nursery at Randolph. Vermont, from 

 which it intends to produce 1,500,000 

 trees yearly. The present stock in this 

 nursery is estimated as follows: 75.000 

 Norway spruce. 1 year transplants: 

 100,000 Norway spruce. 2 year seed- 

 lings; 1,100,000 Norway spruce, 1 year 

 ilings. The Company expects there- 

 ~om this nursery in the spring of 

 transplants. It will prob- 

 " c before this nurserv 

 ry of 1.500.- 

 - 



ill plant 1.240 



~ from this the 100 



. :,T cutting. 



lea t land to be planted 



yearly :,bout nine 



years to \ open land 



320 



and what will probably be cut clear in 

 this time. 



MARK: RK 



The polic is mapped out by the 

 npany ave all the timber cut 



in \ ermont marked, using a 12" diame- 

 ter limit as a guide in the marking, with 

 the idea of cutting over this same land 

 again in fifty years. This markins. 

 being done under the general direction 

 of the State forester's 



There are two very general type^ : 

 tree-growth in this region : mixed hard- 

 woods with scattered spruce, and pure 

 spruce. The pure spruce may be fur- 

 ther divided into ridgetops and spruce 

 slopes. A few sections were so hea 

 culled in former years that nothing can 

 be done now but to cut clean and plant. 

 In the more ina essible valleys which 

 have never been cut over, it is possible 

 to do more. Even here, however, the 

 lower slopes are usually covered with 

 mixed hardwoods and scathed spruce 

 type, where it will be impossible to get 

 spruce reproduction until market con- 

 ditions permit the cutting of the hard- 

 woods at a profit. It has been the aim 

 in this type to move all the trees that 

 will make growth enough between now 

 and the next cut to earn a good rate of 

 interest on the money invested in them 

 at present stumpage values. In doing 

 this the diameter limit has been only a 

 very rough guide. All trees below the 

 limit which showed signs of dise: 

 injury by porcupines, or had such poor 

 crowns that they would never recover 

 and make good growth, were cut. All 

 rapid growing trees above the limit 

 were saved. In this hardwood type the 

 wind is not a very important factor : - 

 it occupies the lower slopes and the 

 hardwoods protect the spruce. Al- 

 i no especial attempt was made 



