Treesearch

Though the "cord" is used as a standard unit of measure for stacked wood, there is much confusion as to what a cord is and how it can be properly converted to other units of measure. The amount of solid wood in a pile varies greatly depending on the size, straightness, and evenness of the material in the pile, and also on the closeness of stacking.

This is a report on the first comprehensive survey ever made of the timber resources of Rhode Island. It shows, for the years 1952 and 1953, the area and condition of the forest land, the volume and quality of standing timber, the rates of timber growth and mortality, and the extent of timber cutting for forest products. The survey was made by the Forest Service as part of a nationwide survey of timber resources. NOTE: this document was scanned from a personal copy and contains hand-written notes.

Skidding is often an expensive operation. This is especially true in mountainous country where the terrain is difficult and skidding distances are usually long.

It has now been over half a century since chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Endothia parasitica (Murr.) A. & A., was introduced into America from the Orient. In that time the blight has spread relentlessly and has destroyed all of our commercial stands of this once most valuable hardwood species of the East.

This is a report on the first comprehensive survey made of the forest resource in Connecticut. It shows the area and condition of the forest land and the volume and quality of standing timber as of January 1, 1953, and the annual growth and mortality of the forest growing stock, and the extent of timber cutting in 1952. The survey was made by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, as part of a nationwide survey of timber resources. NOTE: this document was scanned from a personal copy and contains hand-written notes.

Recently we have had many requests for information about opportunities for establishing new charcoal manufacturing facilities in the Northeastern States.

Cone mortality has been a serious hindrance to the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station's interspecific hybridization work with the white pines.

Some of the first forest research done in North America was done in that lake-spangled land of forests and mountains in upper New York State that we know as the Adirondacks. The very name Adirondacks smacks of forest. The big Webster dictionary says that Adirondacks comes from a Mohawk Indian word, Hatirongtaks, which means literally, "they eat trees."

In 1951, Chaiken reported successful use of a 1 percent water emulsion of 2,4,5-T, applied in ax frills, for killing unwanted hardwoods in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Chaiken's work was an important and, in large part, original contribution; it aroused a good deal of interest among foresters concerned with stand improvement, and it spurred further investigation of frill techniques in several other forest research centers.

This annual report on forest pest conditions in the Northeast combines, for the first time, information about both the major forest insects and the major forest diseases in the region. It was prepared as an aid to those who have a concern for protecting our forests from insect and disease attacks.