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Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1917 



Sixteen Year Old Scotch Pine, Axton, Adirondacks 



An Adirondack Forest Experiment 



By R. H. Campbell, Director of Forestry, Ottawa 



Removing Hardwoods to Encourage Conifers. Dr. 

 Fernow's Plan of Management Well Justified. 



In a recent article in the Revue des 

 Eaux et Forets on the Moral Res- 

 ponsibihty of Foresters it was pointed 

 out that the full results of the for- 

 ester's work are often not apparent 

 until after he has passed from the 

 scene and, referring to one of the 

 French foresters of the beginning of 

 the last century named de Buff event, 

 makes the following note on an idea 

 of his for fixing the moral responsi- 

 bility, even though a posthumous one, 

 on the individual forester for his 

 work : — 



"De Buff event attempted to fix 

 this undetermined responsibility. He 

 thought of inserting in one of his 

 studies of management a table in- 

 dicating, for each cut, the names of 

 the foresters who had marked the 

 trees to be left standing and at the 

 same time mentioning the number of 



such markings, old and new. That 

 is an idea worth careful consideration 

 and if the official statement of man- 

 agement does not give sufficient pub- 

 licity could it not be increased by 

 inscribing on the tract itself the names 

 of those responsible for the system 

 followed. A plate of enamelled iron, 

 placed upon a corner at one angle of 

 the cut, would be sufficient to show 

 the following generation the names 

 of those to whom it owes its riches 

 or its poverty and, although too often 

 posthumous, gratitude or cursing 

 would have its proper object." 



This passage occurs to the mind in 

 connection with a recent visit to the 

 tract m the Adirondack Mountains 

 in New York State which was at one 

 time put in charge of the Forest 

 School at Cornell University, and the 

 plan of operations therefor laid out 



