. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . been culled tooseverely, or where, for other reasons, the conifers are absent and their reproductionis desired. In the contract under which the College is working, due to business considerationsof the market, the amount annually to be cut is necessarily determined by therequirements of the manufacturer: i. e., a certain, stated amount of material mustannually be delivered. To the European forester and to those who attempt topropagate European methods of forest management in this country under asystem
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . been culled tooseverely, or where, for other reasons, the conifers are absent and their reproductionis desired. In the contract under which the College is working, due to business considerationsof the market, the amount annually to be cut is necessarily determined by therequirements of the manufacturer: i. e., a certain, stated amount of material mustannually be delivered. To the European forester and to those who attempt topropagate European methods of forest management in this country under asystem of so-called working plans, this basis for determining the cut, the absenceof yield calculations, and of propositions for a sustained-yield management, willappear strange. It is customary in Germany, and wherever German methods are blindly followed,to determine the capital stock of wood standing in a forest, to calculate how muchthis stock annually increases by growth, and then to determine from these data howmuch may be annually cut without impairing the wood capital; in other words, to. I.—A Modern Logging- Camp in College Forest, Camp Wawbeek. 2, 4, 5.—Wawbeek Nursery, showing the Screens used to protect the young seedlings against excessive transpiration as well as frost. Beds are also covered with Balsam Brush for same purpose. Potatoes are grown the first year to mellow the soil. 3.—Burnt area which requires partial clearing of debris before planting. FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 365 harvest annually only that which does or ought to grow annually, at the same timereducing or increasing the cut, if the capital is deficient or excessive. This is calledsustained-yield management. To apply this principle—perfectly proper for the settled conditions in theartificially reproduced German woods—to our decrepit Adirondack woods wouldmean lack of judgment as to the conditions under which it is to be applied. Meas-urements and calculations upon the basis of which the cutti
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