Identifier: annualreportof3189618newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)

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(2) an account of the great Indian Lake reservoir built inthe Adirondack region in 189S; and (3) some of the more useful physical data onwhich have been founded the view that, with other conditions remaining the same, aforested area will yield a larger run-off in the issuing streams than will a similar areafrom which the forest covering has been removed. * The rapid development in our State of certain industries, together with the extension ofelectrical plants, has created a demand for storage reservoirs in our mountain forests, which will supplythe necessary power to drive the machinery. The subject has been discussed so widely and is of suchimportance to our people that we have deemed it advisable to allow a portion of our Report to be usedin a discussion of this subject. At the same time it should be understood that the views and opinionsexpressed in the following paper are those of the author, and that they do not necessarily representthe opinions or policy of this Commission.372
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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 373 It appears especially desirable to present these latter data in a single compilation,because they are widely scattered, never having been, so far as the English literatureon the subject is concerned, with the exception of some of the annual reports of theForestry Division of the United States Department of Agriculture and Bulletin No. 7on Forest Influences by that department, even approximately brought together.Before proceeding to the main discussion we will briefly consider a few ofthe cognate heads. WHAT THE ADIRONDACK REGION IS GOOD FOR. The climate of the Adirondack region is mostly too severe for the ordinaryagriculture of the low lands of the State of New York. During the last four years, inwhich the author has been more or less in the Northern forests, frosts have occurredthere each season, at an elevation of about 1,800 feet, in both of the months of Juneand August, July being the one month of the year entirely f

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