30 CONSERVATIVE LUMBERING AT SEWANEE, TENN. 



market exists also in Chattanooga, but the freight rate for logs to that 

 city is 10 cents per hundredweight. 



The cheaper grades of timber need not go to waste. Even the butts 

 saved from first-class White Oak and Hickory logs are available for 

 sp< »kes at the wagon factories. A demand exists for White Oak and 

 ( ihestnut Oak railroad ties, and for Chestnut Oak tanbark. At Sewanee 

 about 1,000 cords of firewood are burned every 3 7 ear, three-fourths of 

 which is cut by the University from its own lands. 



MANAGEMENT 0E THE SEWANEE FOREST. 



The present condition of the Sewanee forest renders the application 

 of practical forestry an urgent matter. As the result of present 

 methods the property is steadily decreasing in value, and the best 

 interests of the University demand that careful attention replace the 

 lack of management that now prevails. 



The University realizes the needs of its forest, but instead of invest- 

 ing money in the improvement of its woodlands it finds it necessary 

 to draw from them all the revenue they will yield. Their manage- 

 ment, therefore, if it is to accomplish any good, must be a compromise 

 bet ween what the University demands and all that the forest requh*es. 



The whole forest, both plateau and cove, has been divided, as shown 

 on the map (PI. I), into six blocks for greater convenience in lumbering. 

 The blocks are of such size that one block may be logged every year. 

 Another consideration that has infiuenced this division is that all the 

 timber in each block shall be got out b}" one road and in the cheapest 

 and most convenient manner. The blocks should be lumbered con- 

 secutively in the order of the numbering. 



Block I contains the largest amount of timber that needs cutting" and 

 contains the best young growth on the Domain. Mistakes made there 

 will not be so serious as elsewhere, and good results will be more 

 apparent. Most of the timber ma} 7 be hauled out by team by the 

 Cowan road. By opening up the old Cowan road and making spurs to 

 the right and left of the Cowan road the timber on the second, third, 

 and fourth benches can be hauled out. The timber on the upper 

 benches and slopes can be drummed out with a few drum sets. 



Block II is more difficult to log. (PL IX, fig. 1.) Most of the tim- 

 ber in the cove portion will have to be drummed. A short extension 

 of the old quarry road will make it possible to get out the timber under 

 Claras Point; and a road from the plateau around and under Oteys 

 Prospect will tap the western part of the block. The trees in the cove 

 portion of Block II are not nearly so plentiful or so good as those in 

 Block I. Between Boiling Fork and University View many Chestnut 

 Oaks have been removed for tanbark. Fire has run over this area 

 very often, and the larger trees are generally decayed. Good-sized 



