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the park. (See pamphlet containing Seventh Annual Report of the Commission, 

 January 30, 1902.) But within the past year the lumbermen and pulp-wood 

 operators have cut and removed 501,765,565 feet of Spruce, Pine, Balsam and 

 Hemlock, four fifths of which or more came from the forest? within the "Blue 

 Line," or park, boundaries. Some of this output was obtained also by a third 

 cutting on park lands that were previously classified as lumbered. No supple- 

 mental work was undertaken to determine the area of virgin forest cut over last 

 year, but it may be safely estimated at 70,000 acres. With the former tabulation 

 revised, accordingly, we have for the classification at this date the following 

 statement: 



CLASSIFIED ACREAGE OF THE ADIRONDACK PARK. 



January i, 1903. 



Private Individuals or 

 Class. State. preserves. companies. Total. 



Forest .• 455.4-15 257,186 375,453 1,088,054 



Lumbered 59 2 , 6 3° 3 68 , I1[ 5 780,394 1,741,139 



Waste 10,275 22,483 15,793 48,55! 



Burned 14,617 5,3 QI 23,247 43, l6 5 



Denuded ....... 15, 739 *3»555 27,388 56,682 



Wild meadows 9,961 380 12,188 22,529 



Improved 4,642 6,239 9°,°99 100,980 



Water . 60,135 32,655 3 2 , 2 54 125,044 



Total 1,163,414 705,914 1,356,816 3,226,144 



The term "Lumbered," as used here, is intended to include lands that are not 

 covered with virgin forest, and from which the lumbermen have removed the 

 merchantable Spruce, Balsam, Pine and Hemlock, leaving the hardwood trees, 

 which, as a general thing throughout the Adirondacks, constitute from sixty to 

 seventy per cent of the forest. But it was difficult for the foresters to classify 

 these lands exactly in every case, for on some tracts there was a sparse growth 

 of small Spruce and Balsam that was available for a second or third cutting of 

 young trees suitable for pulp-wood. Hence it is not claimed that the classification, 

 so far as it relates to lumbered land, is strictly accurate or definite. Much of the 

 land thus described will still yield from one to three cords of pulp-wood per acre, 

 while here and there may be found small clumps of large Spruces which were 

 not cut by the lumbermen because the unfavorable location of these trees made 

 their removal unprofitable at that time. 



