Annaat Report of tl)e ^aperintendent 



of Pore^fe. 



To tl)e Forest, PisI) and (lame Commission : 



I WOULD respectfully submit for your 

 information the usual annual report 

 relating to the production of the 

 Adirondack and Catskill forests, the num- 

 ber and extent of the woodland fires, and 

 other matters pertaining to the forestry 

 interests of the State. 



The yearly output of the Adirondack 

 forests shows no diminution, the product 

 for 1900 being largely in excess of the pre- 

 vious year, although not quite equal to 

 that of 1898. Aside from the State hold- 

 ings there are now about 750,000 acres of 

 forest land in the Adirondack Park that 

 have not been lumbered, or from which a 

 second cutting of spruce can now be 

 obtained. Each year, recently, the softwood timber on 80,000 acres or more is 

 cut and removed by the lumbermen or pulpwood operators. This would indicate 

 that if the present rate of cutting continues these industries will exhaust their 

 supply of raw material in ten or twelve years, and have to depend on the State 

 forests for a further continuance of their business. At present the Empire State 

 leads all others by far in the number of its pulp mills and amount of product ; but 

 if it expects to hold its supremacy in this industry it must make some prompt and 

 intelligent provision for a future timber supply. 



From the written reports received at this office, furnished by each sawmill and 

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