June, 1937] Land Utilization in New Hampshire 17 



which has resulted from the varied mixture of the stand and 

 the diversified demand for different kinds of woods have left 

 the area with the foundation for a very desirable permanent 

 mixture capable of rapid response to forest management.'" 



Marketing 



Wood-using industries in the general area are not large but provide 

 a good market for limited amounts of selected logs of certain species. 

 Spool and bobbin plants require maple and birch. Small crutch and 

 tennis racket factories in the adjoining town of Rumney use selected 

 ash. A factory at St. Johnsbury, Vt., sixty miles away, requires se- 

 lected ash logs for shovel and hoe handles, and two larger factories at 

 Laconia, fifty miles away, take bass and aspen for excelsior and se- 

 lected logs for a variety of uses. 



Much pulpwood is trucked to Lincoln and with the changes in paper- 

 making processes, a wider market even for hardwoods may eventually 

 be available. Practically no market exists for eordwood in the area, 

 and due to location is not likely to develop in the future. Most of the 

 volume of production, however, will need to be shipped or trucked to 

 more distant factories. 



Under present trends in timber operations the building and mainte- 

 nance of forest resources and the possibilities of steady employment of 

 local men therein are not encouraging. Unless the population can re- 

 late itself in some way to the forest resources, many families will have 

 to migrate, standards of living will decline still further or relief will 

 have to be materially expanded. 



The forest resources can be rebuilt, and under a forest management 

 program the labor of many of the present population would be re- 

 quired in the work of improvement cutting, thinning, etc. Such a 

 program involves many years of waiting, and few individuals or cor- 

 porations can be expected to change present practices. 



The prediction of a supply and demand situation 50 or even 25 

 years in the future is especially hazardous. Under public ownership 

 the risk would be shared by the general public, but it is difficult to in- 

 dicate an intensity of forest management which is in the general inter- 

 est and not merely a public subsidy to the particular region. 



No doubt, some management will be socially profitable and the de- 

 gree of intensity of management can be altered to fit the social needs 

 of each decade. It is estimated for the purposes of this report that 

 with rather extensive management at least 100 days of labor would be 

 required for each 1,000 acres of timberland. 



SUMMER AND RECREATIONAL 



There has been some development of summer residences scattered 

 through the area. This has usually been on a modest scale to take ad- 

 vantage of low value farms, and very few of the summer occupancies 

 have resulted in employment for local people. A development at Lake 

 Tarleton in Piermont has taken advantage of a beautiful little lake, 

 and a girls' camp occupies an attractive setting on Cummins Pond in 



^ C. P. Cronk's report. 



