Biology Pamphlets Volume 965 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...dead white firs, ranging from 8 to 20 inches in diameter, and an absolute lack of living reproduction. A third sample acre, taken where the fire had not reached, showed: 1 cedar, 14 inches in diameter; 1 cedar, 26 inches in diameter; 1 white fir, 18 inches in diameter; 1 white fir, 22 inches in diameter; and 1 cedar seedling, 3 feet high. Both cedars had been badly scorched, but not killed by the fire. Conclusions. The Madera Sugar Pine Company is not practising conservative forestry. Logging is carried on without regard to the future or to the effect it has on present reproduction. Practically every tree of merchantable size on the area is felled and utilized. Fairly close utilization is being practised. More care could be used in felling, to prevent the tops from smashing, and the chute poles could be utilized as ties or firewood. No disposal has been made of the slashings. For this reason the heat from the fires that have occurred in the cut-over land was so intense that practically all reproduction has been destroyed. The remaining slash should be carefully piled away from the reproduction and burned after the first rains. More care should be exercised to protect the cut-over land from fire. The locomotives and engines are equipped with screens to prevent sparks from escaping, but the wire meshing is evidently too coarse. Small pine trees killed by fire. This quite frequently happens when reproduction takes place on or adjacent to areas similar to--this. Here the tops and limbs have been allowed to remain after logging and will be a constant menace to young trees in the future. As insurance against destruction of the future timber crop such material should be piled and burned MONO LAKE LUMBER COMPANY. In General. The Mono Lake Lumber Company owns 11,560...