Identifier: annualreport101112190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l some twenty years ago; further, thatthe absence of such conditions in the West anno 1907, does notrender conservative forestry in the West for all times impossible. It is unfortunate, indeed, that the majority of these conditionsarises only at a very late hour, to wit, invariably after the gen-eral disappearance of the primeval woods. No man in the United States has had, so far, sufficient confi-dence in conservative lumbering to postpone the tapping of hisprimeval woods until the economic site for conservative lum-bering had locally arisen. The man who does will never live to regret his confidence. i^effjods Regulating fl)e meld in Wood and Timber The question as to the amount of timber which might be removedannually without reducing the growing stock (the main investment) hasoccupied the minds of foresters since many centuries. European govern-ments prescribe definite methods by which the yield of a forest is to beregulated. The family laws governing entailed property do likewise.
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< o <o a p^ 3 </5 wPio u< wO pq g FOREST MANAGEMENT. 333 For America, at the present moment, these methods will find applicationin rare cases only. A sustained yield in virgin forests containing largenumbers of idling trees is an economic absurdity. Pulp mills, tanneries,and other industrial establishments requiring large investments to be madeclose to a forest ma)-, however, seek for sustained yields on cut over lands,from which the idling trees have been removed. General Remarks The methods commonly used for regulating the possibility of theforest are: A. Brick masonry methods. i. Area method. 2. Volume method. B. Formula methods. 3. Charles Heyer method. 4. Hundeshagen method. C. Increment methods. 5. Common increment method. 6. Brand is method. These six methods consider the forest as a whole, ascertain the pro-ductive capacity of the whole, and locate the annual cuttings thereafter. The methods to be considered in the following pages treat every partof the forest acco

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