REPORT ON FORESTS. 6i 



40 to 50 feet high. The large trees noted were a black walnut, 

 three-quarters of a mile west of Milton, 30 inches by 50 feet ; 

 a red oak, one-quarter of a mile north of the same place, 36 

 inches by 40 feet, and another, near Upper Longwood, 60 inche's 

 by 60 feet. From Petersburg to Upper L,ongwood, along the 

 road, there are from 20 to 30 oaks and maples, ranging from 12 

 to 24 inches in diameter and averaging 45 feet high. A maple 

 east of Oak Ridge measures 36 inches in diameter by 50 feet 

 high. 



The portion of the Highlands lying between the valley run- 

 ning from Greenwood lake to Newfoundland, and Wanaque and 

 Passaic valleys, was designated the Passaic range in the " Phys- 

 ical Description." A portion of this, north of Pequannock river, 

 has 75 per cent, of its area in forest, the central belt of the 

 range being almost unbroken by clearings. In the northern 

 part there is a considerable amount of oak and chestnut, from 

 30 to 40 years old, including, perhaps, one-quarter of the whole 

 region, while another large tract appears to exceed 45 years in 

 a;ge, all the more accessible portions near Wanaque valley and 

 the Pequannock being young growth of all ages, from 3 to 5 years 

 and upward, with very little stump land and no new clearing. 

 It is evident that the practice of cutting at 20 years or younger 

 has prevailed along the lower Pequannock, and it would appear 

 that the forest has suffered injury in consequence. This young 

 timber seems to have been mainly cut for charcoal, fire-wood, 

 hoop-poles, &c. While the timber is mostly oak and chestnut, 

 there is some pine and hemlock between Macopin and West 

 Milford, also red cedar in old pastures, and some white cedar 

 south of Greenwood lake. The only portion of consequence 

 which seems to have suffered from fire is an area of perhaps 150 

 acres along the Greenwood Lake railroad, just east of the lake. 

 Most of the eastern part of this section is owned by Cooper & 

 Hewitt, being a part of the Ringwood tract, and the forests of 

 this part seem to be steadily improving. There is some new 

 cutting about Hewitt, two or three himdred acres of stump and 

 brush land being noted, and also some considerable areas of 

 young growth of all ages. 



Continuing along the Passaic range, southwesterly from the 

 Pequannock river to the moraine line at Denville and Dover, 



