Report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine, Volume 6The Commissioner, 1906 The [9th] report contains "Wood-using industries of Maine by J.C. Nellis." Title-page omits "Report." |
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abundant amount AROOSTOOK COUNTY August August 19 August 20 Average yield balsam fir bark black spruce branches burned cedar cent Clearing land conifers Cords COUNTY crop crowns damage dense Diameter breasthigh extinguish Forest Commissioner forest fire forest fire wardens forestry gray birch ground grow gypsy moth hardwoods height hemlock Houlton road inches in diameter increase Indian Township July June leaves less light logs lumber MAINE FARMER PRESS maple methods moisture moth Mountain north wind northwest wind number of trees old trees owners plant Plantation poplar present produce protection Railroad RED SPRUCE reproduction seedlings shade silvicultural soil south wind species spring sprouts stand streams stump swamps TABLE timber tion tops Total yield town tract trunk Unknown valuable W. M. Shaw white pine WHITE SPRUCE wood woodlot yellow birch yield per acre young growth young trees
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Page 2 - ... who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants cool shade and tender rain, And seed and bud of days to be, And years that fade and flush again; He plants the glory of the plain; He plants the forest's heritage; The harvest of a coming age; The joy that unborn eyes shall see — These things he plants who plants a tree.
Page 210 - Penn, made in 1681, required that 1 acre of land be left covered with trees for every 5 acres cleared. But these measures were not well followed up, and the needless destruction of the forest went steadily on. FIRST STEPS IN FORESTRY. More than a hundred years later, in 1795, a committee of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts, and Manufactures in New York made a report on the best way to preserve and increase the growth of timber.
Page 164 - Birch Trees which are found only, or most often, in pure forest are the social or gregarious kinds; those which grow in mixture with other trees are called scattered kinds. Most of the hardwood forests in the United States are mixed ; and many mixed forests, like that in the Adiroudacks, contain both broadPURE FOREST OF YOUNG RED FIR.
Page 40 - All acts and parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are repealed, so far as they impose any punishment for crime, except as herein provided.
Page 172 - When a branch dies the annual layer of new wood is no longer deposited upon it. Consequently the dead branch, where it is inserted in the tree, makes a little hole in the first coat of living tissue formed over the live wood after its death. The edges of this hole make a sort of collar about the base of the dead branch, and as a new layer is added each year they press it more and more tightly. So strong does this compression of the living wood become that at last what remains of the dead tissue has...
Page 164 - ... kinds. Most of the hardwood forests in the United States are mixed; and many mixed forests, like that in the Adirondacks, contain both broadleaf trees and conifers. The line between gregarious and scattered species is not always well marked, because it often happens that a tree may be gregarious in one place and live with many others elsewhere. The Western Yellow Pine, which forms, on the plateau of central Arizona, perhaps the largest pure pine forest of the earth, is frequently found growing...
Page 44 - But no town shall be holden to pay for extinguishing forest fires in any year an amount greater than two per cent upon its valuation for purposes of taxation. If any person so ordered to assist and not excused from said service by said forest fire...
Page 26 - ... highway as they may deem proper, and at suitable distances alongside the rivers and lakes of the state frequented by camping parties, tourists, hunters and fishermen, in their respective towns, notices in large letters to be furnished by the forest commissioner, substantially in the following form : Camp fires must be totally extinguished before breaking camp, under penalty of not to exceed one month's imprisonment or one hundred dollars fine, or both as provided by law.
Page 156 - The regions in which a tree will live, and the places where it will flourish best; the trees it will grow with, and those which it kills or is killed by; its abundance or scarcity; its size and rate of growth — all these things are decided by the inborn qualities, or silvicultural character, of each particular kind of tree. THE VARIOUS REQUIREMENTS OF TREES. Different species of trees, like different races of men, have special requirements for the things upon which their life depends. Some races,...
Page 153 - ... and the digestion of its food take place in the crown. For this reason, and because we can control its shape and size more easily and directly than that of the roots or trunk, the crown is of special interest to the forester. It is FIG.