THE FORESTS OF MARYLAND. 



By Counties. 



In the forest survey of the State every tract of woodland of & 

 acres or more was sketched on a topographic base map, on a scale of 

 one mile to the inch, and its general characteristics noted. The hard- 

 wood stands were divided into three general classes — sapling, culled 

 and merchantable — all shown in red on the forest maps, but also in- 

 dicated by different arrangement and symbols. 



The sapling class represents the young stands too small to furnish 

 a commercial product; the culled class, stands that have either been 

 culled or are so immature that logging operations under ordinary con- 

 ditions would not be justified. The culled class is divided into three 

 sub-classes, according to relative stand of saw-timber per acre. The 

 marchantable class represents the hardwood stands containing the 

 heavier stands of timber where logging is justified and, as in the culled 

 class, three sub-classes are made to indicate the relative stand per 

 acre. 



The pine areas in green on the forest maps are classified by species, 

 using an initial letter, and as to size of trees into six classes, indicated 

 by symbols. Mixtures of hardwood and pine are shown on the forest 

 maps by combinations of red and green, the relative composition and 

 stand of timber by appropriate characters. A forest map will be 

 found in connection with the forest description of each county. 



ALLEGANY COUNTY. 



Allegany, next to the westernmost county of Maryland, extends 

 along a narrow stretch of mountain land north of the Potomac River,^ 

 which foiTus its southern boundary. From the River, near Cumber- 

 land, it is about five miles to the Pennsylvania line, and where Alle- 

 gany joins Washington County on the east, it is only six. But at its 

 western end the county broadens to a width of nearly twenty miles. 

 In point of size it stands fourteenth in the State, but its forested area 

 is second only to that of Garrett. 



A succession of prominent ridges 1,000 to 2,500 feet in altitude ex- 

 tend in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction from the Pennsyl- 



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