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have a total area of 028,000 acres. A working plan for the 60, 000- 

 acre tract of the Okeetee Club, near Ridgeland, S. C, will be begun 

 in the early winter. 



Preliminary examinations will be made of about 1,000,000 acres of 

 Longleaf Pine land in Texas, 50,000 acres of Longleaf Pine land 

 in South Carolina, 10,000 acres of hardwood land in North Carolina, 

 i00 acres of hardwood land in Tennessee, 10,000 acres of Shortleaf 

 Pine land in Georgia, and 17,000 acres of second-growth hard wood 

 land in New York, and will be followed by working plans for some of 

 t li ese tracts. As many other examinations as possible of private forest 

 lands, for which assistance has been requested, will be made. It is 

 intended to devote more attention to the study of wood lots than has 

 been practicable during the past year. 



PUBLIC LANDS. 



Preliminary examinations will be made of 4 of the Federal forest 

 reserves, and the field work incident to working plans will be begun 

 upon at least 2 of them. Plans already in preparation will be contin- 

 ued or completed. 



INSPECTION. 



Markings and inspection of lumbering will continue upon those 

 tracts in the Adirondacks which are under the oversight of the 

 Bureau, upon the 6,000-acre domain of the University of the South, 

 at Sewanee, Tenn., and upon a 14,000-acre tract near Lenox, Mass. 

 Markings and inspection will be begun upon the 14,000-acre tract of 

 Mr. E. H. Harriman, in New York, and upon other lands for which 

 they are requested and advised in working plans already prepared. 



COMPUTATION. 



An effort will be made to complete the working up of all field results 

 obtained during the year. The quantit}^ to be handled exceeds con- 

 siderably that of the fiscal year 1900-1901. 



FOREST INVESTIGATION. 

 STUDIES OF COMMERCIAL TREES. 



Studies of important hardwoods will be carried on in the Smoky 

 Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau. The investigation of second- 

 growth hardwoods in New England and of Balsam in Maine will be 

 continued, while a study of the White Pine in Michigan will be begun. 

 Western Yellow Pine will be studied in South Dakota and Arizona, 

 and Sugar Pine and the Bristle-Cone Fir in California. 



Monographic studies of Southern timber trees will be continued, 

 and will include the hickories, additional important oaks, ashes, elms, 

 beech, chestnut, tulip poplar, lindens, and sweet gum. 



STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICAN FORESTS. 



Forest distribution in Nebraska, Colorado, and Montana will be 

 investigated. The study of the influence of forest cover on the run- 

 off of streams, begun in southern California during the last fiscal year, 

 will be continued. 



At the request of the Michigan State Forest Commission a study 



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