296 THE FORESTS OF CECIL COUNTY 



nace, for their courtesy in furnishing information in regard to the 

 manufacture of pulpwood and charcoal. 



The Maryland Geological Survey bore the expenses of all the field 

 work and travel connected with these investigations, while the Bureau 

 of Forestry contributed the services of the necessary experts. 



The purpose of these investigations is to give a comprehensive view 

 of the forest resources of the counties named and finally of the entire 

 State. The scope of the work includes a study of available timber 

 supplies, their character, extent, and relationship to dependent wood- 

 consuming industries, and of causes which have deteriorated the 

 quality and greatly depleted Maryland forests. While the space and 

 time devoted to this report would not permit the presentation of a 

 technical working plan applicable to the various types of forests 

 studied, yet a special effort has been made to point out the abuses and 

 neglect to which the forests have long been subjected. Emphasis has 

 been laid also upon the necessity and importance of a conservative 

 management and improvement of existing woodlots and timber tracts. 

 To this end the author has given some general instructions which, if 

 followed, it is believed would prove widely beneficial in the improve- 

 ment, extension, and maintenance of a more regular supply of com- 

 mercial and other timber. In addition to observing these general 

 precautions, the owners of woodlots and timber tracts may avail them- 

 selves of the expert advice and cooperation * offered by the Bureau 

 of Forestry both in tree planting and in the conservative management 

 of woodlands and timberlands. 



Location. 

 Cecil is the most northern of the Eastern Shore counties of Mary- 

 land. It is situated at the head of Chesapeake Bay, which forms 

 part of its southern boundary. The Susquehanna river is the western 

 boundary and separates Cecil from Harford. On the north and east 

 the county is bounded by Pennsylvania and Delaware. 



i Outlined in Circulars 21 and 22, copies of which may be had gratis by applying to 

 the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



