A Forest Wording Plan 



For Townships J, 6 and ll, Toff en and Oossfteld Purdue, 

 Hamilton County, Nev *Iorl$. 



PART I. 

 InfrodQCfton. 



THE object of this report is to present a definite and comprehensive plan by 

 which a certain part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve in New York 

 may be managed in accordance with the principles of practical forestry. 

 It sets forth the methods which should be followed in removing the timber now 

 merchantable, in order that repeated crops may be harvested and the general 

 productive condition of the forest not only maintained but improved. 



This working plan is the result of a continuation of the work carried on in the 

 Adirondack Forest Preserve by the Bureau of Forestry during the summer of 1900, 

 in response to a request made by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of 

 New York to the United States Department of Agriculture for cooperation in the 

 study of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. In accordance Avith that request, which 

 followed an appropriation from the Legislature, a forest working plan was prepared 

 for Township 40, Totten and Crossfield Purchase. This was published during the 

 spring of 1901 as a bulletin of the Bureau of Forestry.* 



In order that the study begun on Township 40 might be extended, the 

 Legislature of 1901 voted an appropriation of $3,500, through the means of which, 

 and in accordance with the terms contained in Circular 21 of the Bureau of 

 Forestry, this working plan for Townships 5, 6, and 41 was made. 



These three townships, together with Township 40, containing, in all, nearly 

 100,000 acres, form one of the largest and most compact blocks of State land 

 within the proposed Adirondack Park. The forest problems presented on all 

 four townships are the same, and when taken together these townships form a 

 better unit for economical administration than if managed separately. 



Therefore the present working plan must be considered as a supplement to 

 that for Township 40, in which may be found facts and figures relating to the 



* Bulletin No. 30, "A Forest Working Plan for Township 40," by Ralph S. Hosmer and 

 Eugene S. Bruce, Washington, D. C, 1901. 



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