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COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



woods in the eastern portion of Lake township. Another of the same 

 kind may be found in northern Anstruther and southeastern Monmouth. 

 These are areas where the rocks have been covered to much more than 

 the usual depth with glacial debris. In the northern third of the 

 drainage basin, the townships of Stanhope, Guilford, Minden, Dysart, 

 and Dudley are deeply overlain by drift, and the forest conditions of 

 the southern portion are reversed, that is, the hardwoods or mixed 

 forests are the prevailing types, and the pine lands are localized within 

 them. 



In order to determine the composition of the hardwood type, the 

 trees of the various species were counted and classified according to 

 diameters, after the manner explained above. Sample plots to the 

 extent of i6 acres were made in various places scattered through the 

 region. Most of these were taken in small patches of virgin stands 

 or, if trees had been removed, the stimipswere counted as standing trees, 

 the object being to determine the composition of the original hardwood 

 forest. The results of such determinations are given in the following 

 pages. 



The three plots given below were made in Lake township. 



Number of Trees per Acre on a Low Flat Between Slopes 

 Species — Veterans Standards Poles Saplings 



Sugar Maple 



Basswood . 



Beech 



Yellow Birch. 



Elm 



Hemlock. . . . 

 Ash 



Standards 

 12 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 



Poles 



4 



4 



4 



Total 

 28 

 16 

 12 

 12 

 8 



Total... 

 Per cent . 



Species — 

 Sugar Maple . 



Beech 



Hemlock 



Yellow Birch . 

 Basswood .... 



....4 32 16 36 88 



.... 4.5 36.4 18.2 40.9 



Number of Trees per Acre on a Gentle Slope 



Veterans Standards Poles Saplings Total 



Per cent 

 31.8 

 18.2 

 13.6 

 13.6 

 9.1 

 9.1 

 4.6 



100.0 



24 



512 



320 



32 



600 

 416 



48 

 8 



Total 8 40 168 864 1,080 100.0 



Percent 0.8 3.6 15.6 80 



Number of Trees per Acre on a Bench about 50 Feet above the Flat 



Species — 



Sugar Maple 



Beech 



Yellow Birch 



Basswood 



Hop Hornbeam 



Balsam 



Large-toothed Aspen 



Veterans 

 40 



Standards 



8 



24 



Poles 

 32 

 80 

 24 

 48 

 8 

 24 



288 

 136 

 144 

 48 

 48 



lings Total 



240 

 176 

 96 

 56 

 24 



Per cent 

 38.0 

 24.8 

 18.2 

 9.9 

 5.8 

 2.5 

 8 



100.0 



Total 40 40 224 664 961 



Percent 4.1 4.1 23.2 68.6 



These plots were taken successively from the base to near the top of the .slope, 

 where the type was mixed. 



