DESCRIPTION OF NEHASANE PARK AND WHITNEY PRESERVE. 21 
form a basis for future growth and to seed the ground to valuable spe- 
cies. It is necessary to know what the rate of growth of the trees left 
in the forest will be after the first cutting in order to determine how 
soon the second crop can be obtained, and also to know what new 
growth will come in to take the place of the trees which have been 
removed. The purpose of making a working plan is to study questions 
of the growth, reproduction, and general character of the important 
trees, and to devise a system of cutting which will enable the owner to 
make a profit from the land and at the same time to secure the perma- 
-nence of the forest. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE TRACTS UNDER CONSIDERATION. 
Two tracts are included in the working plan presented in this report, 
namely, Nehasane Park in Hamilton and Herkimer counties, N. Y., 
belonging to Dr. W. Seward Webb, and the preserve belonging to Hon. 
William C. Whitney in Hamilton County. 
NEHASANE PARK. 
This is a body of forest land, roughly triangular in outline, with the 
longest side to the north (PI. IV). It lies in the west central portion 
of the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York, and is traversed 
in a northeasterly direction by the New York Central and Hudson 
River Railroad (Adirondack and St. Lawrence Division). About two- 
thirds of the area is in townships 37 and 38 of Hamilton County, while 
the western third lies in Herkimer County, townships 42 and 43. From 
east to west the park stretches from Little Tupper Lake to Big Rock 
Lake and includes the latter, together with Lake Lila, Lake Nehasane 
(Pl. VI, fig. 2), and a portion of the head waters of Beaver River. Other 
waters of the park drain through Little Tupper Lake to the Raquette 
River and through Cranberry Lake to the east branch of the Oswe- 
gatchie. Both these lakes are outside its boundaries. The general 
elevation is from 1,700 to 2,000 feet above sea level. 
The whole park includes an area of about 40,000 acres. The general 
character of the country is hilly and somewhat broken, with low swampy 
tracts near the streams and lakes. Numerous knolls and ridges, from 
a few yards to over 300 feet in height, rise from the lower ground. In 
general the ridges.or series of ridges run northeast and southwest. Low 
rounded knolls rising above swampy ground are very frequent. More 
level areas, or flats, are of considerable extent; some of them low and 
rolling and covered with glacial bowlders. There are numbers of broad 
flat ridges. The higher hills are for the most part conical, with small 
tops, or consist of long narrow ridges. The southerly slopes are apt 
to be rocky, abrupt, or often even precipitous. The northerly slopes 
are more gradual. This country shows in many ways the effect of the 
ice with which it was once covered. The soil is a glacial drift, and the 
