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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (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)
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adily. Floods occur whenever there is a heavyrainfall, and when the water recedes the rivers and creek beds are substan-tially dry. To lose our timber and thereby the continual flow of waterin the great streams of the State will result in great commercial loss to theState, and, in places, much injury to agricultural lands. Therefore itseems very important that the State should increase its work in tree plant-ing, and that all persons owning land not especially desirable for agricul-tural purposes, should be encouraged to plant trees thereon. The vaiueof all kinds of lumber is daily increasing, and soon it will be so great thatthe lumbering of hardwoods in the Adirondacks will be feasible — the priceso much exceeding freight rates and the cost of manufacture that theprofits will warrant the cutting. If the people of the State allow that tooccur, and the hardwoods are taken off, the protection of the sources ofthe rivers which rise in that section of the State will be destroyed and it
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PUTTING THE FIRE OUT FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 23 will be too late to rerjair the injury. The Land Purchasing Board hasmaterially added to the holdings of the State during 1907, having purchasedand made contract to purchase 46,156 acres, which will make the totalamount of land held by the State 1,518,450 acres. Of this there are inthe Adirondacks 1,454,383 acres—the remaining 112,072 acres being inthe Catskills. Our State tree nurseries and reforested lands under thesupervision and management of this Department continue to attract wide-spread attention among persons interested in the work throughout theUnited States. During the year 1907, as heretofore, many persons inter-ested in the work of tree growing and tree planting have visited our nur-series and plantations and have pronounced them the best in the UnitedStates. Without doubt it is advisable for the State to enter into theplanting of trees on a much larger scale to the end that at least 5,000,000trees a year may be

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