20 FOREST PROTECTION AND CONSERVATION 
Reports From Chief Wardens. 
Hosea B. Buck, Bangor, Chief Warden, Northwestern part of 
Aroostook County. 
In patrolling this territory there were three active chief 
wardens, viz:—Grover C. Bradford, Ervin L. McKenney and 
Fred A. Lancaster. . 
By active, I mean these men were on the work continuously dur- 
ing the season and were held responsible for the efficiency of the 
patrol in the special territory which was assigned to each. 
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ABANDONED FARM SCENES—1. 
New England’s abandoned farms are frequently “viewed with alarm” in 
the public prints;-but in Maine they are serving as nurseries for young tim- 
ber. Usually the fields are mowed and the hay gathered for a number of 
years after the farm is abandoned as a place of habitation. Sooner or later 
the fields also are abandoned and then the young seedling trees begin to grow. 
Some very creditable pulpwood operations are now being made on farm land 
that the older inhabitants can remember as mowing fields. Although lost to 
agriculture the abandoned farms will certainly help out the waning timber 
supply. Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
ASSIGNMENT OF TERRITORY 
Section 1, Grover C. Bradford, Chief Warden; Permanent address, 
St. Francis, Maine. 
District No. 3 
This section covers the watershed of the St. Francis River in 
Maine; the Little Black River in Maine; the Allagash River from 
