Report on Forestry |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 13 | |
| 34 | |
| 45 | |
| 95 | |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 109 | |
| 193 | |
| 205 | |
| 210 | |
| 210 | |
| 211 | |
| 217 | |
| 228 | |
| 232 | |
| 114 | |
| 118 | |
| 122 | |
| 125 | |
| 131 | |
| 137 | |
| 167 | |
| 170 | |
| 171 | |
| 177 | |
| 233 | |
| 238 | |
| 242 | |
| 246 | |
| 249 | |
| 249 | |
| 251 | |
| 265 | |
| 293 | |
| 321 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
24 inches 30 inches 45 feet 50 feet high abundant acre average bark beetles belt borers branches Bridgeton Burlington county burned catchment cedar swamp cent Chamaecyparis thyoides chestnut cleared coniferous coniferous zone conifers cords covered Cretaceous crop cultivation deciduous deforested Delaware diameter and 30 dune east effect evaporation fact farms feet in height fire-lanes fires flora forest area forestry grow hemlock Highlands humus inches diameter inches in diameter insects Kittatinny Kittatinny mountain larvæ less maple measured mountain oak and chestnut Ocean county original forest Passaic pine forest Pinus Pitch Pine plants portion produce railroad rain-fall Raritan red cedar red sandstone region ridges river sand sandy soil seed slope South Jersey Southern New Jersey southwest species sprouts square miles streams surface swamp temperature tension zone timber tion tract Triassic upland valley vegetation Wanaque white cedar wood yield
Popular passages
Page 235 - Investigations conducted by the Biological Survey have shown that the northward distribution of terrestrial animals and plants is governed by the sum of the positive temperatures for the entire season of growth and reproduction, and that the southward distribution is governed by the mean temperature of a brief period during the hottest part of the year.
Page 249 - The chief use of their [stone] hatchets was according to the unanimous accounts of all the Swedes to make good fields for maize-plantations ; for if the ground where they intended to make a maize-field was covered with trees they cut off the bark all round the trees with their hatchets, especially at the time when they lost their sap.
Page 299 - Dunes were naturally originally fixed by forests. These forests were destroyed by vandals and all attempts failed to stop these menacing mountains of sand. In 1778 a talented engineer, Baron Charlevoix de Villers, was sent to Arcachon for the purpose of forming a military post. He saw at once the necessity of fixing the sand, and...
Page 60 - ... a sixty-years' growth of oak and chestnut, averaging about twelve inches diameter and forty-five feet high. The valley at Milton and Oak Ridge contains most of the cultivated land of this region, but about one-third of its area is in timber, mainly oak and chestnut of all ages from fifteen to sixty years, with a little pine along the road south of Clinton, and some maple and other soft woods in the low grounds. It is noticeable that all the principal slopes about this valley, and generally on...
Page vi - ... shall report the results of such investigation to the legislature, together with a statement of what part or parts of such lands would be suitable for a state forest reserve...
Page 100 - In 1866 a fire burned over 10,000 acres, extending 7 miles inland from Tuckerton and West Creek. In 1870-71 nearly the whole wooded portion of Bass River township, Burlington county, was burned over. In 1871 two fires in Ocean county burned over 30,000 acres. In 1872 a fire burned over from 15 to 20 square miles, worth before the fire from $10 to $30...
Page 2 - West-New Jersey," printed in 1698, says : " In this country also is great plenty of working Timber, as Oaks, Ash, Chestnuts, Pine, Cedar, Walnut, Poplar, Firr, and Masts for Ships, with Pitch and Rosin of great use and much benefit to the Country."!
Page 203 - As the bleeding from many small scratches may drain the human body of blood when they are kept constantly open, so the boring of thousands of beetles, insignificant individually, may weaken even the forest giant ; and when this occurs, when there is no longer a healthy, resistant tissue, then another host of other species steps in, adds to the injury, and paves the way for yet further armies that complete the work, leaving only a dead stick with bare branches, sooner or later prostrated by a storm,...
Page 302 - was forced to take some of this sand for a debt. He became a millionaire later by selling it in small parcels." The first summer the visitors lived in the resin cabins ; now every luxury is afforded to the two hundred thousand tourists who come there every year. To-day it is a health resort. It is covered with pines and is prosperous. Although a few severe fires* occur now and then, and owing to a lack of roads or other sufficient means of transportation all the wood is not sold, nowhere in the...
Page 192 - Period. During this period the shore line of the North American continent, so far as New Jersey is concerned, extended irregularly from about the vicinity of Mahwah to a few miles south of Phillipsburg. Everything indicates that for a long time the Atlantic border had been slowly sinking and that the Triassic deposits were laid down in estuaries and lagoons which were alternately covered by the tides and exposed to the air. The rocks are largely conglomerate, sandstone or shales,. evidently shore...