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Title: An analysis of New York's timber resources
Identifier: analysisofnewyor80cons (find matches)
Year: 1984 (1980s)
Authors: Considine, Thomas J; Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Broomall, Pa. )
Subjects: Timber New York (State); [https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectForests_and_forestry_New_York_State_Forest_management_New_York_State_ Forests and forestry New York (State)
Forest management New York (State)]
Publisher: Broomall, Pa. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Figure 12.—Stand-size distribution, by geographic unit, 1980. Considerable variation exists be- tween the stand-size distributions of the eight geographic units (Fig. 12). The general trend is toward a more mature distribution as you move across the state from west to east. The Eastern Adirondack Unit has the highest proportion of sawtimber stands—52 percent—and the lowest proportion of sapling-seedling stands — 14 percent. At the other end of the state and the stand-size distribution scale is the Lake Plain Unit. It has the lowest proportion of sawtimber stands—33 percent—and the highest proportion of sapling-seedling stands —35 percent. The stand-size pattern of each unit results from its particular history of land use shifts and timber cutting practices. In the Lake Plain Unit, a combination of level terrain and good soils made it an agricultural center. Forest land was usually cleared to make way for crops, orchards, and pasture. In the last several decades the trend has reversed, especially in pasture land in the southeastern counties of the unit where land has been allowed to revert to forest. Be- cause there was little forest to begin with, these recent increases meant there would be a high proportion of immature stands in the unit's distri- bution. It will be decades before the unit's timber resource is mature. The stand-size distribution is very different in the Eastern Adirondacks. Sawtimber stands are more common here than anywhere else in the state. The reasons are closely tied to the unit's particular land use and cutting history and the species composition of the unit's forests. The Eastern Adirondack Unit is very heavily forested—94 percent. Like many other units it received heavy timbering pressure around a century ago. Unlike other units, however, ex- tensive farming has not kept many areas clear. 20

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