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Identifier: annualreport16190910newy (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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ched a stage wherethey should be thinned. Culls remaining from the original forestmay still be found. These should be removed along with the weedtrees such as ironwood, blue beech and the inferior trees of otherspecies. If it should be necessary to thin still more, remove thebeech. Favor the more valuable species at all times. The materialremoved can be used for fuel or for some other purpose and willmore than repay the cost of removal. The trees that are left willmake more rapid growth and mature earlier as a result of the im-proved conditions. The object of the owner often determines the species to befavored. If the woodlot is to be used for the production of sugar,the sugar maple would be favored and other species removed when-ever their removal would benefit the development of the maples. Much of the original hardwood region is particularly well adaptedto the growth of basswood. Many of the unpastured second growthforests contain a large percentage of this valuable species of both
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