Works located at what is now Riverton doubtless 

 used a considerable quantity of the lumber 

 originally grown on this forest. 



PART I 

 FOREST DESCRIPTION 



This area of 1214 1 acres is sufficiently large to 

 manage as a unit, although not large enough to 

 justify the full time employment of a forester. 

 Since it is fairly typical of much of the woodland 

 of the state, this analysis is printed with the hope 

 that it may have suggestions of value to the 

 owners of similar property. If anything, the 

 character of the forest is better than most tracts 

 of this size for the reason that there have been 

 no fires on it during the past fifteen or twenty 

 years, and no land has been cut clean during 

 that period. Like most of Litchfield County 

 much of this land was cut over for cordwood 

 and charcoal production in the old days when the 

 iron industry of Connecticut was prosperous and 

 used a great deal of charcoal and when large 

 amounts of cordwood were used by the brass 

 industry of the Naugatuck Valley. The occur- 

 rence in the forest of considerable old pine and 

 hemlock is due partly to its inaccessibility and 

 partly to the fact that these trees were seldom 

 used for charcoal. 



1 Deed area 1241 acres. 



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