BOURNE 



This town has very nearly 50:^ of its area covered 

 with scrub oak but fortunately this type of scrub oak land lends 

 itself to planting, so that Vire can promise c- favorable future for 

 this town. The reason that we have so much of this scrub oak 

 land is that there have been disastrous fires burning up all of the 

 young reproduction of other valu3.ble species, burning the humus and 

 leaving the land in a very sterile condition. 7/e have also a great 

 many stands of scrub oak so dense that it is impossible to do any 

 ple.nting without expenditure of considerable money, but ve believe 

 that the result will warrant the cost. On the ridges to the north 

 and west there are large areas of pitch pine and 08.k. These areas 

 are of cordwood size' or smaller, in fact most of the growth in this 

 town is reproduction- that is so small as not to be merchantable, 

 even for cordwood. A considerable portion of this waste land which 

 is": now covered with scrub oak or has been cut off and just lying idle, 

 must be planted. This is the one and only solution to the problem 

 in this section. 



There was so much of this scrub oak and waste land that it 

 was necessary for the department of Oonservation to step in and pur- 

 chase a large area on which planting has been done and will be done 

 in the future. Fire lines will be built and this area will gra.dually 

 assume the outlines of a forest. Large areas of this type growing 

 to valuable timber vjill be to the adventa^ge of all who enjoy travelling 

 on Cape Cod. 



