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Article: From tree farm to forest farm. (forestry consultant Henry Kernan)(includes related article) (Private Forests)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 American Forests. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The reasons for and rewards from wise woodland maanagement have changed enormously over the past 50 years.
HALF A CENTURY AGO woodland managers were concentrating--rather narrowly, it now seems--upon producing wood fiber alone. My recent midwinter rummaging among old records turned up a plan typical of those timber-haunted times. The several long-folded pages had the date of April 1947 and the name of the farm forester. All my savings were by then in forest land, for which he had prepared a type map and management recommendations. The type map showed a 1,176-acre medley of farms abandoned to old fields, pastures, and logged-over woodlots, mostly of maple and hemlock. ...
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