EESULT OF FIRE OF MAY 20th, 1911, IN PILE OF LOPPED TOPS, CUTTING OF 1909, SPERRY 

 POND, WHITNEY TRACT, ADIRONDACK PRESERVE 

 Pile had not dried out on bottom, so that fine material at bottom of pile did not bum nor did the larger 

 branches on the top of the pile. Thus the fire did not bum into the ground nor make a hotter fire 

 than if the tops were not lopped. Shows that spring fires in lopped tops are not necessarily hotter 

 than when tops are not lopped. 



LOPPED BRUSH PILING AND SKIDWAY OF PULPWOOD CUT ON SANTA CLARA LUMBER 

 CO.'S TRACT, ADIRONDACK PRESERVE 

 Heavy stand of spruce. Note dense mass of brush on the ground. Practically a clean cut of spruce and 

 balsam. Brash piled along road to make room for skidding, but little, if any, extra trouble taken to 

 pile lopped tops. 



