3/8 REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



three other townships of the block, together with recommendations for forest 

 management within them. 



For this, and for the further reason that it has been found advisable in a 

 number of cases to discuss the problems presented without reference to township 

 lines, there are frequent references in the following pages to Township 40. 

 Especially is this the case in regard to certain watersheds, parts of which are 

 in more than one of the four townships. This working plan for Townships 5, 6, 

 and 41, however, can stand alone, although in the actual working out of the 

 problems presented on the whole block it would undoubtedly be used in close 

 conjunction with that for Township 40. 



General Description of fl)e t^loc^. 



Townships 5, 6, 40, and 41 form a roughly rectangular block on the western 

 side of Hamilton County in the west-central section of the Adirondack Park. 

 The county line between Hamilton and Herkimer counties cuts off the northwest 

 corner of Township 41, which is the only part of this township not owned by 

 the State. Townships 40 and 41, with the exception just noted, are situated 

 wholly in the town of Long Lake. Township 5 lies partly in the town of 

 Morehouse and partly in Arietta, while Township 6 is also in two towns, Arietta 

 and Lake Pleasant, the southeast corner of Township 6 lying in the latter.* 



The lines of Townships 5, 6, and 41, like those of Township 40, run N. 63 E. 

 and N. 27 W., the former being referred to as north and south lines, the latter 

 as the east and west. The lines of Townships 6 and 40 are approximately 6% by 

 6 miles in length, while those of Townships 5 and 41 are 7^ by 5^2, the longer 

 distances in each case being the east and west lines. 



Area. 

 The area of Townships 5, 6, and 41, including private holdings, is as follows: 



Acres. 



Township 5 23,106 



Township 6 26,619 



Township 41 23,117 



Total 72,842 



This area together with that of Township 40 — 25,660 acres — gives a total for 

 the four townships of 98,502 acres. 



*It may be noted that the township in the Adirondacks is distinct from the town. The 

 township refers solely to the subdivision of the land as originally allotted, while the towns are the 

 political divisions. A town may consist of a number of townships or parts of townships. 



