State
BIENNIAL
Concord,
Forestry
of
1949-1950
New
New
of
Hampshire
Division the
REPORT
Hampshire 1951 ;- -s
JOHN
basis.
conservation
citizens
the Hampshire
tracted
in
timber
timber
tion ment
of
the
Compact
fine
only. tion
activities
are the
report
To
accordance
the
country.
formation
forest
His
record
reported
H.
The
and
The
of
and
activities;
and
for
when
FOSTER,
blister
substantiates
nation-wide
accomplishments.
Excellency,
biennial
Taxation
of
the
Forestry
together
fire
the
of
as
provides
which
program
in
Honorable
the
cut
one
The
with
control
years
of
rust
State
separate
and
Forestry
the
in
period
of
with
New
Act.
and
ever-increasing
sound
the
control
attention,
for
by
1949-50.
place
the
the Northeastern
Forester
record
on
Recreation
the a
Governor,
Council:
Hampshire
tax
most
has sections;
This
wisdom
detailed
Division
a
of
forest
This
passage
program;
in
abatement
cooperative
been
the
Forestry
As
progressive
‘efto’U!
law
spite
but
report
has
practices.
of
accounting
general
each
and
characterized
provides
Commission
Interstate
CHARLES
RANDALL
support
OWEN
HARRY
W.
has
is
in
of
placing
been
a
forest
that
prevailing
ROBINSON
1949
and
contains
where covers
rightfully
charter
rather
JOHNS
property
forestry-minded
customary
K.
Recreation
of
of
of
for
our
E. of
E.
This
research
Forest
the
ROGERS,
cutting
the
the
the
expenses
SPALDING,
ON,
submits
GREENMAN,
a
a
member;
future
by
than
drought
BROWN,
Recreation
complete
law
severance
Forestry
Forest
established
tax
tax
an
Fire
in
is
a
Commission.
and
not
exceptionally
state
recent
law on
herewith
and
carried
regulatory
conditions;
Protection
Conserva
expansion
states
standing
record
only
manage
Division
Division
by
descrip
tax
forest
years,
New
the
out
at
on
in
its of — rrmr - - re — - —
ç
3
REPORT
REPORT
Surveys
Private
State
Publicly
Public
Forest
Forestry
Revision National
Imports
Forest
Forest
Forest
Registered
District
County
White
Town
State
Management
State
Forest
Fire
White
Forest
Forest
Forests
Protection
Forestry
and
OF
Forests
Prevention
Forest TO
and
Products
Owned
Mountain
Research
Taxation
Pine
Insects
and
Forestry
Fire
Forest
of
Forest
Division
THE
Statistics
GOVERNOR
City
Laws
Arborists
Nursery
Exports
Blister
Control
of
Operations
Forest
and
FORESTRY
Advisory
and
Survey
Cut
Forests
State
National
1949
Program
Appropriations
Reservations
TABLE
Diseases
Rust
1948
of
Land
Forests
Logs
AND
Boards
and
Control
Forest
in
OF
DIVISION
to
New
COUNCIL
1949
Sawmills
CONTENTS
Hampshire
69
66
64
63 61
61
59
58
55
53
50
49 43
39
37
32
31
29
23
13 7 9
t t V r
d
f. E p a $ a:
T w 2 fc w cc
in of p TI ca la: su pa 1i Fuel Moisture and wind velocity recording Station. in fo
J.
for
in
lightning
partial
surface largely
These paratively
caused
of
in
The
with
for
conditions
25
and was
Temple
acres and
$13,214.00.
proved
acre
Rindge
with
fresh
during wet
rains
winds
though that
springs
The
T
Lincoln
mid-March
acres
rainfall
final
1949
a
The
expensive.
pumped
1948
conditions
only
a
a
area
time
had
in
in
westerly
were
deficiency
ban
in occurred.
by
HE
damp.
large
the
to
and
Season
ing changed
Mountain
August
light
of
the
dried
Temple Season
control there
fire
the
proved
be
effected
large
continued
continued
debris
millions
was
dry
grass
was
wet
Auburn.
continued
through
flash
The
northern
very
up
percentage
with
high
lower
accumulation
up
No
period,
On
by
were
breeze,
Review
declared
conditions
invoked on
number
to
and
by
rapidly
Auburn
of
and
to
Killing
burners,
stubborn,
and
fires
greater
September
rain
area.
when
October
on
of
the
6.32
Merrimack
break
be
the
into
50 September.
brush through
normal
FOREST
The
and
the
feet
especially
the
fires
very
fell
through
mountain
in
of
in
inches
in
of
from
White
water
of
fire
frosts
safe.
The
1949.
western
Walpole
than
upper
the
ground
grass,
July
Fire
Sharon, 8th
of
from
that
lightning
railroads
of
in
burning
fires
got
resistant
burned
9th
westerly
stacked
snow Winchester
the
ground
June
all
below
Valley.
drought,
FIRE
was
normal
to
occurred
Mountain
Conditions—1949-1950
out
in prevailed
The
May
April.
slopes
of a
with
slash
With
over
water excessively
lightning
parts
fire
1947
the
threatening
in
which
for
of
15th brought
55
fires.
and
the
31st
total
to
CONTROL
lumber.
the
was
on
southern
temperatures
pump
immediate
winds,
the
acres
over
of
Light
and
only
drought
control, of
streams,
dropped
September
normal
This
to the
smokers.
on
winter
in
National
to
Little
18
the
state.
so
On
cost
fire
28th. 3
growing
October
June
and
in
a
relays.
the
ledges
hot,
burned
rains
weeks
dry
no
August
state
few
resulted
The
for
in
and
by
it
rainfall
of
was
of
Coolidge
now
late
so
control
Temple
swamps,
22nd
dry
exceptionally
Many
that
being
a
large
On
thunderstorms
in
western
1948-49
Forest
year
suppression
of
17th
and
These
that
with
before
3rd,
time
equally
A
stands over
spring
weather
dried
May
Fall
29th
June
and
final
flash
and
a
fires
in
taken
1948
followed
oil
in
threatened many
burned
a
Mountain
deficiency
the
10
Mountain
kept
wardens the
occurred
return
bogs
the went
counties,
during
Walpole,
a
up.
the
tankers
18th
difficult
mostly
of
control
started
fire
acres.
ended
whole
carry
com
over
1200-
new
wells
high
the
1948
was
dry
150
off
and
Al
of
by
a
of
in a 8 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
since it was close to the forest boundary. Hot and dry weather prevailed, so the closure was in effect from July 7th to 18th, although there were fairly general rains on the 10th and 13th. Following hot dry weather in the latter part of July with only ‘1 light scattered showers and a general rain July 31st, August began hot and dry. On August 8th the counties of Rockingham, Strafford and Hilisborough were completely closed with partial closure on the rest of the state excepting Coos County. Following general rains the ban on all counties except Strafford and Rockingham was lifted on August 15th, these two counties remaining closed until September 1st. The coastal regions were very dry all summer, green grass and lesser vegetation reached the cured stage, and the possibility for fires was very great. Wells dried up and water for stock and chicken farms had to be hauled. We had a large number of fires with an unusual number of lightning fires. For the most part the fires were kept small but fires in New Durham and Brookline burned 165 and 150 acres. The week of August 21-27 was the worst with visibility lowered by smoke drift from Canada and with hot dry winds. During September we had greater than average rainfall which soaked the surface but with little effect on ground water levels. October resumed the trend of excess temperature and less than nor mal rainfall, which condition continued until the end of the year. Ground water levels reached their lowest point in the latter part of October. 1949 ended with an accumulated deficiency for the year of 9.37 inches of normal rainfall. The 1950 Season From the time the snow went off in late March in the lower end of the state burning indexes were high and continued so until the last of May. April was cool with very heavy rain on the 20th. Rapid surface drying brought a rapid rise again in the burning index so that conditions were approaching a critical stage by the end of the first week in May. The morning of Sunday, May 7th started with increasing west winds which continued on through that night and all the next day at from 17 to 35 miles per hour shifting northwest on the 8th. Warnings over commercial radios were immediately an nounced and Governor Adams was requested by the State Forester to place a partial closure on the whole state. There were many fires those two days most of which were held to small size, but a few, due to their location, immediately blew up into conflagrations that defied for a time all efforts to control. A list of these larger fires and the area they covered follows: ‘1
-
Use
Bulldozer
Use Bulldozer
Tank
Portable Portable
Wardens,
Special
Untrained
Members
shared
ingly Mountain,
Mountain
cost
20.81
accumulation
until
ban
evening tion
16
ticular
partment
May
erators
trained
May
Date
of
of
from
The
trucks
was
This
of
In
on
cars
the
8
difficult
trucks,
inches 7
deputies
pump,
pump,
with
use.
suppression
of
D-7
D-6
all
deputy
fire
6
lifted
fire
of
maximum
pumpers
town
end
deficiency
lookout
organized
of
and
in
12:00
12:45
12:30
11:30
11:00
11:28
10:15
a
4:20
4:00
2:15
2:00
3:30
1:40
1:30
1:00
5:00 1:00
the
fighters
9:00
Discovery
fighters
r
busses—rate
the
high
total
less
low
500
of
Walpole,
to
of
Time
on
wardens LARGE
and
Little
dumps.
P.
day
P.
P.
P.
P. P.
P.
P.
A.
P. P.
P.
A.
A.
P.
A.
P. A.
June
extinguish,
towns
pressure
gal.
deficient
May
pressure
than
towers.
of
Rates
M.
M.
M. M.
M. M,
special M.
M.
M.
M.
M. M.
M.
M.
M.
fire M.
M.
M.
during
they
rates
plus
or
85
Coolidge
REPORT
with
FIRES
19th.
normal.
departments
Caverly
more
during
fires
not
The
For
of
Litchfield
Sanbornton
equipment Northumberland
occurred
Alexandria
Newton
Northfield
Canterbury
Nashua Derry-Windham
Litchfield-Hudson
higher
Alton
Merrimack
Merrimack
Derry
Auburn,
rainfall Loudon
Epsom
Town
Seabrook
set
the
.55
Londonderry
All
Chester
Pay
set,
Equipment
Occasional
with
or
OCCURRING
high
were
OF
For
Mountain
inch
biennium.
by
the
of
fire
paid
‘Jountain
FORESTRY
for
labor
Labor
correspondingly
Candia,
or
the
since
winds
the
reported
and
de
op
biennium
accumulated
by
Fire
Rental
fires
rains
Commission did
hour
costs
1946
in
broke ON
$2.50
$1.00
.75 1/2
.90
6
Fighting
8.00
6.50 5.00
3.00
Mountain
DIVISION
in
not
Lincoln
were
cents
in
Acres
1,205
or of
1,531
kept
cents
cents
MAY
500
were
380
accounted 103
250
to
160
168
15
25
15
70
New 75
12
per
20
per
the
27
per 13
per
per
per
50
rate
miles
break
telephone
deficiency.
per
the
under
the
per
per
high
hour
hour 7-8,
hour
hour
two
hour
hour
authorized
as
proved
Durham,
mile
which
depending fires
Unknown
end Smoking
Town
Smoking,
Smoking,
Railroad
Railroad
danger
Railroad Incendiary
hour
Glass
hour
Debris
Debris
Smoking,
Town
Smoking,
Burning
Town
Smoking,
Cause
out
1950
follows:
days,
control
costs.
for
of
such
again.
communica
in
dump
dump
dump
exasperat
burning
the
burning
1950
The moderate
the
dump
including
by
building
choppers
choppers
on
Temple
fisherman
fisherman
fisherman
as
by
towns
state
par
high
total
Fall
was
The
the 9
I.
6
4
3 0
4
24
20
12
83
89
526
156
125
1949-50
r3
COMMISSION
30th 7
S 2 0
60 58
82
32
33
33
568
MONTHS
139
114
Fires)
•
June
BY 1948-49 1 $
•r --:
- Railroad
‘•
RECREATION Ending
•
FIRES of - -
-
OF
AND Year •• • - -
-
—4; (Exclusive
I- Fiscal $
•$
NUMBER
FORESTRY
H.
N. Totals
:4
June
April
February May
October January
September
March
July
November
December
Month August
10 I - - —
FIRE RECORD FOR FISCAL YEARS 1949 AND 1950 (Exclusive of Railroad Fires)
Average Number Total Average Area Per Average Total Cost of Acres Fire Total Damage Cost County Year Fires Burned of Fighting Acres Damage Per Fire Fighting Per Fire Belknap 1949 45 146 3.2 $95.00 $2.11 $2,031.80 $45.15 1950 36 178 4.9 101.00 2.80 1,787.28 49.65 Carroll 1949 55 56 1.0 709.00 12.89 3,197.19 58.13 i 1950 40 73 1.8 375.00 9.37 2,974.46 74.36 Cheshire 1949 80 504 6.3 1,703.00 21.29 20,649.88 258.12 1950 47 59 1.2 1,197.00 25.47 3,069.01 65.29 Coos 1949 29 j 76 2.6 377.00 13.00 2,480.28 85.53 1950 32 99 3.1 1,121.00 35.03 5,611.34 175.35 Grafton 1949 46 159 3.5 657.00 14.29 3,050.68 66.32 1950 42 97 2.3 231.00 5.50 2,204.80 52.50 ‘-< Hilisborough — 1949 114 558 4.9 22,176.00 194.52 20,787.49 182.34 1950 102 969 9.5 19,466.00 190.84 14,994.54 147.00 Merrimack 1949 72 296 4.1 4,436.00 61.61 5,941.82 82.53 1950 70 409 5.8 1,470.00 21.00 3,494.02 49.92 Rockingham 1949 72 171 2.4 988.00 13.72 3,735.71 51.89 1950 99 2,608 26.4 12,851.00 130.82 14,790.75 149.40 Strafford 1949 26 68 2.6 277.00 10.65 1,027.33 39.51 - 1950 23 256 11.1 1,365.00 59.34 11,143.53 484.50 Sullivan 1949 29 119 4.1 103.00 3.55 4,035.81 139.16 1950 35 34 .9 50.00 1.42 1,112.05 31.77 State Totals 1949 568 2,153 3.8 $31,521.00 $55.49 $66,937.99 $117.84 1950 526 4,782 9.1 $38,227.00 $72.67 $61,181.78 $116.31
¶ I Fire 55.49 72.67 26.29 52.85 10.59 78.08 78.80 46.19 34.48 32.42 31.06 42.06 30.98 $14.04 27.14 Fire 81.98 99.96 47.85 92.41 455.34 264.97 302.22 $115.81 102.44 107.42 121.82 391.91 200.62 206.44 139.63 252.57 321.75 $140.94 134.05 128.12 215.59 264.61 168.25 313.09 220.41 164.20 Damage Per Average $180.23 Damage Per Average 1950 AND YEARS 1949 Total $947.00 4,799.00 Damage 9,188.00 38,225.00 31,520.00 10,598.00 23,972.00 26,213.00 32 t 8Q!00 12,548.00 13,451.00 23!,827!00 2i.00 15,122.00 10,043.00 $6,832.50 55,524.00 93,191.00 38,994.00 75,762.00 39,760.00 27,090.00 97,508.00 94,917.00 27,786.00 83,347.00 $58,210.56 59,503.00 41,287.00 17,681.00 18,205.00 53,000.00 94,468.00 40,075.00 244,973.00 106,517.00 2fl,255t130 Damage 115,614.00 100,000.00 174,567.00 $62,000.00 FISCAL $2,270,212.00 — COMMISSION YEARS
‘ 0 Fires) Fire 3.9 25.4 Fire 9.1 3.8 5.9 7.4 3.5 6.9 4.0 3.0 9.2 5.2 6.7 9.0 5.5 7.9 8.7 16.6 Burned 8.5 18.7 Acres Area 52.3 12.4 10.5 13.4 13.8 17.4 24.5 25.7 17.2 27.7 11.7 16.2 11.4 32.1 14.4 26.0 51.8 24.3 25.8 37.2 23.8 24.6 Per FISCAL Average Acres Per Average Railroad THIRTY-NINE Area RECREATION FOR of FOR AND 258.7 6,862 Total 2,153 4,782 Area Acres 2,989 2,382 3,422 1,116 1,235 5,080 2,069 4,928 4,400 2,011 2,906 2,667 Burned 7,485 2,920 5,080 4,882 1,661 8,181 4,714 9,420 5,351 8,368 2,333 7,172 9,484 1,494.2 8,693 3,502 1,996 1,680 10,078 6,630 8,119 8,474 36,533 18,750 Area Acres 267,633 14,507 29,480 Burned RECORD (Exclusive (
‘
1 P RECORD a ) FIRE FORESTRY Fires 66 59 413 526 568 Fires 538 402 403 496 319 699 307 691 488 410 433 387 .538 542 370 488 363 192 765 485 271 295 367 FIRE 486 199 330 138 276 295 308 197 357 609 H. 128 315 792 344 16,117 No. N. No. total Average RAILROAD FOREST years 1949 1950 Year 1950 39 Annual 1949 1948 1947 1946 1943 1944 1945 1942 1940 1941 1938 1939 1936 1937 1935 1934 1931 1932 1933 1930 1928 1929 1926 1925 1927 1924 1922 1923 1921 1919 1920 1917 1918 1915 1916 1913 1914 1912
Year 12
wide
vention in tribution
D
1950
1949
1950
1949
1950
1949
Year
COMBINED
cooperation
L
circulation
UE
the
the
tensive
campaign.
of
to
outdoor
biennium.
thousands
FOREST
$69,745.00
$38,225.00
$31,520.00
lack
with
Forest
planned
Town
and
4,782
6,935 2,153
1,094
of
568
526
prevention
the
The
personnel
were
REPORT
FIRE
Fire
ALL
The
of
program
U. FIRE
department’s
Area
“Dancer
posters,
shown
AGENCIES
RECORD
S.
wardens,
Number
OF
Forest
PREVENTION
$7,779.50
$6,832.50
with
signs
Burned
Railroad
Damage
$947.00
FORESTRY
1,752.9
1,494.2
of
in
258.7
Meter”
book
125
of
prevention
sufficient FOR
59
66
and
schools,
however,
Service
REPORTING
(Acres)
Fires
fire
marks
posters
FISCAL
,Siünboard.
DIVISION
White
prevention
in
churches,
time
National
tacked
$20:00
$20.00
was
Forest
and
the
$0.00
and
YEARS
Mountain
3.8
2.0
1.8
to
12
6
6
attempted
national
blotters
aided
give
up
films
fraternal
1949
hundreds
to
in
received fire it
supplied
$77,544.50
$45,077.50
AND
$32,467.00
the
during
no
8,691.7
2,413.5
6,278.2
pre
and
dis
Total
1,231
ex
1950
of
640
591
13 I
e
a
a
f
T
B
U:
6
Di ye .
‘
a
a
be
of
of
in
the
not
line
the
the
the
and
and
sup-
used
was from
pre
slash
busi
with
those
for motor
result,
“Keep
in
to
where
partial
such
Green” is
district
must
a
4100
a
accurate
setter.
does
was
and
and
and
inspection
and
office
committee
warden
and
much
preventing
inform
distributed
enables
no
new
now
As
agricultural
a
releases
subject
The yet
fire
collection
improvement
back
proclamation
during
field
in
boundary
to
running
the
system,
a
saws
law
days
the
main
the
recordings
and
by
reporting
the
this
where
by Such
organized
While
and
fires
by
Hampshire
of
threat
48
prevention
in repeated
industrial
effect
This
fairs.
would
the on
the
these selectmen,
new
marked
1949
regulations
helped
of
power
up
potential
a
fire
newspaper
by
of
approximately
by
New
groups
check
of
woodlands,
most
shows
time
of
the
large
COMMISSION
was
prohibit
compliance.
who
many
This
many
in
of
mill
a
at
total
formally
marked to
roadside
by
prevention
the
the
use
of
been
issued.
only
every
the
a
some
material
a
made
including
the
stations
Industries.
and
these
biennium.
of
“Keep
of
in
of
followed
days.
means has
for
summer
the
and
to
prepared
had
been
never
the
the
reach
state, with
11
enforcing
efforts
by
education
prevention
of
radio
and
prevented
offender
sportsmen’s
displayed
Forester
the
RECREATION individuals
groups
smoke,
has
riot
to
has
series increased
of
of
in
times
some
one-half
talks
There
the
Products
the
in
smoking
assistants
the
and
A
AND
during
the
in
much
and
were
in
had
public
State accomplished
inspections
or
adopted
step
negligible
other
total
every
warden
three
and
of
policy
Publicity
a
of
from
of Forest
the slash.
compliance
has
a
sites
are
distributed.
and
commercial
fires
combine
been
exhibits,
where
weather
the
grange
warranted,
chiefs,
for
undoubtedly
program.
Hampshire
of
it
permit
to
marks.
stations
the
and
a
chiefs
forward
FORESTRY
now
by
was
It and
dry
times.
invoked has
over
comprehensive
open
in
distributed
prevention
approximately
program
once
number
lookout
New
H.
where
danger.
expenses
sawmill
of
weeks
book
advice
radio
organizations
A
American
town.
various mills
dry
the
district
N.
was
and
has
mills
this
where
the
operation
the
of
kept,
to
1950
on
at
the
district years
prevention
greatest entry.
the
the
adherence
and
through
Committee,
material
by
of
law
that
organizations
and
of
of
but
stressed
coordinate
was
firms,
from
by
the
by
and
an
in
The
Although
During
The
woods
Fire building
thirteen
warden’s
checking
smokes
prosecution
fires
over
and the
laws,
in
slash
record
spections
continuing
slogan ness
movement.
plied
Green” could
public
announcements
the
Governor restrict
spring
particularly
fires closure
the
a
carried
all
vention warden
some
fairs
full
chiefs furnished
service posters 14
h
g El fl
h ci Li
e it S a d e d
e e
t
f e
IV
1’
W
V very
6 District
telephone up
I
Lightning
Unknown Camp
Incendiary
Lumbering
Smokers
Miscellaneous Burning
Railroads
TOTAL
features
of amendments
are
equipment
x
N
wire
Total
phones the feet
Automotive
6 pumps,
useful
Causes
in
order
Fires
was
old
were
6,
legislature
NUMBER
Brush
of
wire
of
an aid converted
to
Army
proved
slash
11/2”
six
constitutes
these
designed
army
replace
to
to
were
thousand
equipment
lookout
the
or
rubber-lined
truck
OF
STATE laws.
so
have,
6
purchased.
are
mill
REPORT
FOREST
worn
by great
x
For
and
converted
a
Percent 6
operating
No.
maintenance
building
and
in Fiscal
real
personnel
feet
100.0
made.
OWNED
acquired
equipment
13.0
a 22.0
32.0
10.0
of
4.1
many
5.2
4.0 2.0
7.7
OF
help
slash
FIRES,
threat,
hose
Fires
of
Total
Years
FORESTRY
Four
for
11/2”
in
limb
on
cases,
laws
carrier, were
included
EQUIPMENT
1949
high
forest
AREA
because
fires
especially
back
two
linen
guards
made
and
strengthened
purchased.
hazard
DIVISION
new
that
pack
fire
Percent
Area AND
and
1950
a
of hose
100.0
during
new
type
vehicle.
11.4
10.3
38.1 20.4
2
and
its
where
5.0
1.0 3.0
8.3 2.5
reels
a
Burned
DAMAGE
more
weather. Total
panel and
ability
pick-up
painting,
Y
to
the
The
Pacific such
miles
two
the
lay
truck.
to
1949
Percent
BY
field
truck
preventive
thousand
operations
traverse
The
and
Damage
of
Marine
into
CAUSES
session light
pick tele
The
many
100.0
Total
for
42.0
31.0
10.0
2.5 1.2
2.0
2.1 2.2
a 7.0 15
t
I,
4
on
on
M.
ill the
the
the
two
fre
and
the
now
the
and
has
and
The
with
wave
chief
been
town
head-
more
radio
F.
of
south proved
made,
bulky
by
and
Weare
hauled
became
pumps,
objects
for
with
the
has
one
basis
be
new
the
radio
and
and
dispatcher
new
the cooperating
report,
during
were
installed
through
Hill,
of
pull
it
used
thus
back
receiving
in
district
headquarters
lookout
of
can
control
at
any
frequency
equipped
to
and
set
department
with Manchester
50-50
one
large
large
of 1-A
maps
or
to
the
the
faster
Groveton
a
a
the
Portsmouth.
car
1947-48
c.
was
assigned
chiefly
fire
Warner
acquisition
services
existed
state
Gravel
at
used
six
on
purpose, communication
in
a
at
and
a
carry
itself
to
1949
languished
m.
the
5
car to
to
the
warden department
COMMISSION
to
equipped Hill
that
acquisition District
both
of had
of
constructed
this
between
department
servicing
part
aid
1950.
used
towns of
placed
facilitates
roads.
for
the
communications
19
31.90
the
moved
town
for
to
centered
fire
equipment,
room
12,
and
pumps
drag
truck
Mansfield’s
District
extricate
cars.
to
Hollis
also
Commission
program
a
Federal
jobs
been
of
for
Webber’s
contact
useful. 1949,
was
page
to
situation
summer
Radio
Many
to
on
new
June
resulting
road
drag, provide
back
in
RECREATION
entrance
resale
on
important
group
state
panel
has
cost
Leroy
equipment
fire
Chief
the
Dover
of
office
the
COMMUNICATION
up
radio
repair
Chief
winch
The
of
for
crystals
aid
doubly
AND
the
All
road
in
from
The
a
band
there.
very plans
installation
heavy
of
for expansion
a appropriated
its
c.
and
rising
of
c.
crystals
a
sales
loss
A
critical
shape
of
tools
proposed
m.
dispatcher
appropriated
District
1950.
crew
state
m.
The
the
have
equipment.
pull
Concord
RADIO
one
to
equipment
vehicle
made
mutual
the
District
as
the
spots. the
Communications
radio
changed
future
to
their
his
to to
$2,000
8-9,
M.
FORESTRY
manner the
of
31.78
the
to
were
played
power
fire
pump
the
30-40
roads.
this
map
of
H.
from
temporarily
due
the
F.
soft
and
of
in
limit
all
that
1949,
carried
and
May
the Portsmouth
providing
N.
Due
year.
repairs.
power
for the
the
to
but
Federal
be
district
sets
funds unit
and on
of
changed
for
chiefs
limit 1950
16,
made dispatcher.
with
in
part
equipment
because
ness,
and
trained
one
district
O
31.90
station
a
can
23,
from
departments
The
made
his
fires
the first
roads,
has
of
Additional
valuable
holes of
any
or
mobile
large
so
quency
available.
district
bad
Nashua
fire
use
lengths
quarters
and
May
the
August
a
radio
eastern
biennium.
N
in
necessary
and
continued,
a program
sets
economical use map
outfitted
Depot
for
to
supplies
16 poor
a
Great checking
were White
equipped,
Great
Hyland
The
on
six
cabin
and
Oak
into
in
one ment
limited
LOOKOUT
forest
Milan
Concord
Osborne
feet
purchased
interior
Hill,
larger
mobile,
Hill
this
Hill
Mountain
ESIDES
was
station.
Hill
to
the
changing
painting,
fire
were
Federal
to
those
and
Stratham
Hill
provide
state-wide
and
enlarged
cabins
provide
weather
Tower
screened
operated
fire
with
of
prepared
Rock
STATION
was
to
on
Bear
the
the
National
finders
funds
repairing
and
replace
a
and
each
Milan
as
finished
Rimmon. additional
Hill,
normal
house
and
mobile
REPORT
system.
Hill.
replacing
by
porches
living
for
available
district
Interior
were
screened
remote
poor Craney
Hill
IMPROVEMENTS
Forest.
Deer
at
of
in
and
Practically
maintenance
quarters
OF
Pawtuckaway
installed
field
and screens,
living added.
each
Circular
stove
Mt.,
of with
FORESTRY
the
control
Hill
of
and
Mt.
glasses.
Six Forest
sufficient
of
Red
house
room. and
pipes,
at
the
has
windows,
the
Prospect
additional
The
on
base
plotting
all
from
Hill,
least
Rock
Fire
of
Red
Jeremy
DIVISION
state
continued.
furnished
the
New
porch
the
was
The
maps
lookouts,
AND
second-hand
Sugar
the
Lookout
one
Rimmon
Hill,
board. program
stations
being
cars.
reshingling
wall painted
interior
pairs
main
Hill
of
were
central
MAINTENANCE
Green
Loaf,
maps
the
with
station
loaned
which
cabin
A
The
of
office
were
made
are
and
of
of
main
Hyland
Green
A.
binoculars
Mountain,
station
for
electricity.
improving
cabins
the
roofs
insulated
extended
would M.
now
papered.
showing
by
included
for
cross-
station
Mt.,
equip
cabin
the
all
Hill
so
an
and
on
tie 17 18 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION the new fire finders and for two replacements. The stair tread irons on Signal Mt. and Stratham Hill were drilled and bolted to replace the welding which had failed. A base camp on Nash Stream for the use of the Sugar Loaf watchman was purchased and furnished. Four miles of the tele- Be phone line through Corbin Park were relocated and rebuilt through Be to the central station to give improved service to this isolated sta tion. A garage was built at Bear Hill to complete construction at Cr that station. . The problem of vandalism at Monadnock became so acute that Fe the station has been abandoned as a lookout and the facilities turned over to the Recreation Division. Miller Park and Hyland Hill cover Hy the northern parts of this area fairly well with Mount Grace in Warwick, Massachusetts cooperating in covering the southern area. Ma Crotched Mt. cabin and tower had also been all but wrecked by van dalism. We have been asked by residents of the surrounding towns Oa] to reopen this station which has not been occupied since 1942. This would entail extensive repairs and rebuilding of the telephone line. Prc Twenty-seven stations were operated during the biennium as compared to 31 in 1947 and 1948; yet the number of smokes discovered and fires reported in 1949 and 1950 exceeded these earlier years. The Su number of smokes and fires were greater in 19O than 1949.
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P1 REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 19
LOOKOUT STATION STATISTICS* FIRE Name of Number of Smokes Number of Fires Number of Visitors Station Discovered Reported Registered 1949 1950 1949 1950 1949 1950 Bear Hill 54 126 14 47 750 1,088 Belknap Mountain 513 586 162 230 1,528 1,603 Blue Job Mountain. 93 137 57 57 1,284 991 Cardigan Mountain 59 44 46 43 3,395 2,418 Craney Hill 129 80 38 38 316 408 Croydon Mountain 7 72 6 46 2 32 Deer Mountain 10 1 1 0 76 53 Federal Hill 58 124 48 103 574 843 Great Hill 8 9 4 0 423 420 Green Mountain 22 31 7 18 964 938 Hyland Hill 48 30 43 24 176 196 Jeremy Hill 84 101 30 36 515 965 Kearsarge Mt. 152 209 116 158 7,695 9,276 Magalloway Mt. S 8 4 3 27 20 Milan Hill 474 172 282 170 13,971 8,158 s Miller Park 50 60 15 27 6,510 4,476 ) Oak Hill 142 209 50 134 340 508 Fawtuckaway Mt. 59 429 28 106 1,229 1,478 Pitcher Mountain 25 19 10 4 797 879 • Prospect Mountain 65 24 50 21 1,312 919 Red Hill 317 163 71 33 1,269 1,086 Rock Rimmon Hill 48 76 25 40 330 386 Signal Mountain 299 234 299 234 449 755 Stratham Hill 94 56 34 22 1,232 1,537 Sugar Loaf Mt. 1 23 0 0 8 18 Uncanoonuc Mt. 85 112 41 45 2,097 1,509 Warner Hill 194 190 81 86 260 372
Totals 3,004 3,325 1,598 1,725 47,529 41,332 *Calendar Year. SAWMILL OPERATIONS The 1949 legislature amended the law regarding registration of mills to include all mills processing lumber in or near woodlands, or where fire may be communicated to such lands. Accordingly, some planing mills and similar mills not previously registered were required to register in 1950. The number of mills registered and additional permits issued for movement to a new setting are shown in the table
4 below. The number of mills showed an increase from the post-war low of 389 in 1948 to 417 in 1950, this being only two less than the ‘4 record high of 419 in 1947, since registration started in 1925. Steam mills continued to decrease, while diesel and electric power increased in popularity. A further decrease in the average number of settings per mill reflects a tendency to permanent settings in the case of many 4. mills. However, there are some mills that have become more mobile than formerly due to the growing carcity of large accessible timber lots. Sixty-three percent of all reporting sawmills were registered under the fire laws in 1949 and 70% in 1950.
‘
3
3
1
or
to
the
dis
was
was
dur
year
mills
from sheet
91 in 441 350
441
one
403
Mills
Total
number
Permits
permits.
Average
the
previous
issued
remained
124
sites
year
useful
of
man
is
the
registration
respectively.
training
the
74 moved 256
182
the
new 9
1
2
in
1950,
in
Regis-
either
26-Year
tration
489
organization
to
Each
highly
course
Hence 8
0
2
In
permit
additional use
informational
mills
a
table:
site
of
renewed
mills
and
fire
during 9 4
8
2
the 7
3
2
a
Settings
no
mills for
489
280 188
324
322
1950
Permits
COMMISSION
Issued If
282
form
initial
447 6
0 of 8
same
1949.
moves.
move
Number
forest
during
an
standard
in
Issued
biennium.
5
4 following 9
9
up.
1
the registered
11
15
they
REGISTERED
mill
not were
447
244 170
283 284
material
required Additional
1949
for
Permits
the
mill 4
9
on
set
Total the
the
15
403
Additional
of
the
did
of
is
remaining
in
317
movement 3
per
RECREATION
gratted
REGISTRATION 19
21
or
MILLS
issued
the plans
1
3 3
1
is
districts
17 13
23
registered
mill
The
until
2 Mills
441 251
153
441
copy
417
during
of
1950
and 20
OF 27
AND
Number
operated
a
shown
1948
by
of
the
1
town
ADMINISTRATION
50 51
settings
121 they
as
in
informational
year.
permits issued 1
8
1
1
2
SAWMILL
of
that
represents
Registered
with
times 11 18
403 239
134
391 403
is
1949
new
of
at
districts
nine
where
the
Number
NUMBER
1949,
FORESTRY
registration
of
which
mill Much
Collected
to
Site
more
In
a
H.
site
occupied by
317
282
nine
on
permits
permit
new
one
provided
N.
or
One
during
for
in
a
the
Remained
numbers
Mill
book.
Power
compilation
town.
site
number
new
year.
on
of
was
one of
Mills
Mills setting
from
Mills
Classified times
Totals
no
Totals
total
The
The
When
new
each
the
the
Kind
1949 1950
additional
Year
granted
Type
Calendar
Mills
service
completed patcher’s
for
varied
ing the moved
of on The Combination year,
Sawmills Gasoline is
Shingle Other Steam operate
Diesel Electric more
Edging
Planing 20
4
)
State
Conference
where
tion.
this all
worked their
training budget
dens
Special
them
as
24th
in
new
County th
Assistants.
filled,
with
ployees being
1947 4.8 for
ment new
funds
Forest
Some graphing
state.
standards prepared,
aided
1949
Special
On has
The three
Park
own
adequate
District
and cents
The
to
The
Much
district
its from
estimate
Working
the
March fires,
in
out
used
Deputies.” purposes
been for
member
with
26th. since
in
of
called
Service, completion
training
expense, Aid
1949-50 district position
training
conducted
to
forest
southern
an
field
fire
the Deputy
has
these
meeting
other
mimeographed
in
in
a
the
the
Chief
a
On
was
fire
then,
16-17, base
acre,
great
prevention
for procedures
raises
warden
On
arriving
second
been
problems
with
of
Second
was average
fire December
a
each chiefs
assistants men. to
of
furnished
of Special
in of
the
protection.
its
of
retired.
Forest
These basis
due counties
envisioned
by forward
1949, discuss, notices
control Administrative
done
the overhead
high the
worked REPORT
representatives
District
completion
state
school
district
meetings U.
New
at
largely
Many on
state
FIRE
former
coordinated
and
of for and
men S.
New
Deputies
on
and
this
Fire and
21,
staff
many
the could
and plan work
Guy Forest
from
step
suppression
England
at OF
the
pre-suppression the
out
No.
operations
reorganization
was
During personnel early
preparatory
groups have
1949,
Hampshire
TRAINING distributed,
cost
to
Bear
Fire
Wardens.
FORESTRY
in
3.2
attended
furnishing
and
in Hollis
reclassification
the
for payment
was 1.
give
1922
fires.
the
assigned
the
Service
the they
cents
in
per
Asistant
been
Wardens
receive
Charles
with
Brook
men
the of
and
the
carried
met
the
large time
spring to
of
district acre.
initiated in
costs
Region
Working
were
biennium
most
valuable next
an New
1939 Antrim
the DIVISION
were next
was personnel
of
school the
regularly, fire In for
State films $180.00
training.
suppression
acre organizational
and
Young,
on Federal
Associations of not
Civil for
order meetings.
host five-year designated
forest
York
goal control
and
biennium.
this
given
of
by
Seven
1950. reclassification
to
for
groups
in
Park
was
being
under
aids
a
this
departmental
Air
for
to
being
at
the 5.8
project. at
1948
Fire
who
five-year
to
fire
their
and
appointments
Some
Clarke-McNary
appointed
throughout
continue
Bear
the figure
from
to
Hilisborough
Patrol,
cents
of
Fire
Altogether
immediately
distinguish
period.
costs
continued
a
organiza
Training
served
continued to the
often “District
request
by
and
the
reduced
programs.
groups
Brook
Control
establish
March
reached
an mimeo
of
war period
and
equip
the U.
plan the
at acre
em
for
The
the
the
S. 21 j 22 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION of the state foresters. All district men attended this school on large fire organization and tactics with C. A. Gustafson, Chief of Fire Control; Ira French, Fire Equipment Specialist; Warren T. Murphy, Information Officer and Eph Oliver, Director of Fire Control, Region 7, acting as instructors. In September 1948, fire service personnel attended the New Eng land fire conference at Fryeburg, Maine and were conducted over the disastrous Brownfield burn and observed an extensive fire fighting equipment demonstration. In June 1950, 21 district chiefs and special deputies attended the conference held at Acadia State Forest at Greenwich, R. I., and viewed an extensive display and demonstra tion of fire equipment. Warden training meetings were held in all districts during the spring of both years. In 1949 the old practice of holding area con ferences during the late winter was resumed with 18 meetings held in all. These were indoor meetings with fairly large attendance but they lacked the warden response, so that in 1950 a more informal type of field and indoor meeting was conducted. These stressed fire organization and the use of equipment and were much more successful. Attendance at the meetings was about 85% for wardens and 60% for deputy wardens. In addition in 1950 a meeting for wardens only was held in Districts 1 and 5 with the newly appointed District Chiefs. Also many small local evening meetings with the wardens, deputies and selectmen were held in the towns. In all 41 large group training meetings were held in the biennium. Those attending were paid $7.00 for a day meeting and $5.00 for an evening meeting plus expenses of a meal and travel.
I
1
cation
available
Department
ing
the
inception in
this
stands.
which
tions
the
While
of tivated.
of
white
which
pine
in
most
the
spread fibre,
tree their
their
is
Even
slow, tacular, necessity
I
white
New
more
the
that
N
the
leaves
state,
From
tective
bark.
To
vention,
northeastern
disease
diseases
have
seldom
spread
serious presence
less as
while
pines, the
on makes
the
rust
are
varies,
many
technical
it
Hampshire
lightly
pines
a
additional
and
Botanically,
of
state
apparent,
application
to
for
the
has
towns,
of
rule,
infecting
necessary
Owing
measures
between
of
still
this
and
is
through
contend
insect
possible
infect
affect
Ribes
WHITE
persons
their
of
may
this
Agriculture,
beginning
two
not
as
is
and Brief
regarded
and
other
these
currant
work
difficult
and
cities
well
states
easily
to
be
phase
funds plants,
only
has
effect
private
are
pines
and
until
REPORT
not
range
its
History
in
these
the the
the
of
has
PINE
up
the
for
supervisory
types
as
“bark
the
short-lived,
New
always so
two
the
and
disease
forest
to observed;
by
and
too
those
the
nature
commercial
to
to
of INTRODUCTION
beyond the
destruction long
immediately
difference
its
or
of quickly
has
Federal
bushes
100
lands.
OF
root BLISTER
the
the
hosts live
identify
late,
individual
management.
Hampshire
gooseberry
of
control
diseases”
hosts,
the
time
spread
FORESTRY
been
generously
management
of
miles
been
control.
Cooperative
general
of
cooperating
system;
and
are
900
spores
personnel,
is greatest
noticeable,
are
even
this
required
and
Government,
recognized
widely
in
by
of develop
protection
effected
a the
or
and
of
to
RUST
known
apparent,
with
rust
cooperative
owners
characteristics
after
under
more,
public
the
is
the
bushes,
DIVISION
others
attacks
Ribes which
1000
Since
given
development.
the
unrelated
importance
Damage
is
Control
white the
to
average
which
CONTROL
states
in
woodlands
and
therefore
by
as
those
difficult
average
feet.
and
blister
by
kill
forest
of
in
the
of
develop
the
support
need
wild
Ribes.
of
through
wind-blown
no
since
white
pine.
and foresters.
pine•
the
for
project
owners tree
their
foliage
developing living
from
one
layman.
It
as
to
of
rust.
fires
to
their
forest
forest
Ribes
around their
are
are
blister
1941,
in
is
diseases,
by
well
The
certain
each
pines
understand
host.
doubts
From These
the
tissues
this
insects
and
the
are
furnish
between
of
infected,
fire
rate
spores.
menace
as
spread
eradi
owner.
condi
U.
made
other, In
white
from
Some
upon
bark wood
rust
pine
spec
fact
the
The
cul
pre
pro
are
the
for the
S.
of
of
23 is
e
t]
of
in
re
for
the
Due
con
men
226
pro
from
area were
been
make
been year,
these
state
about
check
Ribes
higher
of
Boston
Nearly
Recog
menace to
need through
$32,850.
140
eradicat
to
impossi-.
and
by
in
concerns
has
of
towns
this
the
state,
re-growth of
successful
in
have
of
accomplish- of
be
$34,850.
control
the
Franklin
much
control
91
officials.
of
released
in
the
held
a
basis.
a work
of
need
percent
still
on
with
Bank
will
total
disease
and of work
rust
Ribes
obtained
Ribes
be
is
necessary
resource. allocated
business On 40
a
it
town were
the
appropriations
total
Hampshire
this
The
aggregating
on
whole,
cities.
any
can
cooperating
was was
a
example
reflected
all,
meetings
area
of
blister
it
COMMISSION
million
other
Reserve
funds,
protective
sections
While
In
the
natural and
New
holdings.
was
financially
follows:
former
maintenance
Claremont
the
72
students
towns
Commenting
of
for
ascertain
and
spread
season
a On
of
as
season.
annual
control making
individuals,
of
some
fact
pine
control of
conducted
towns
to
on
federal
localities
over
destroying Federal
in
until
are
the
outstanding
600
valuable
1949
State
funds
thus this
their
105
appropriations
rust,
a
indicated.
RECREATION
Concord,
of
now
and
further
white
the
been
towns.
an
and
cooperated of
in
other
Balances
the
labor
the
of
and
number
Selectmen
acres, is
of
is local
the
some
developed.
its
AND
eradication
relaxation
In
detail-mapped.
has
own
of
of
deferred
$2,000.,
State
the
have
no
percent
examination areas,
the
each.
and
cities
disease,
be
Forester
during
by
given
Of
been
be
adjoining
percent
their
an
effort
conducted
to
available,
conclusion
who
2,800,000
four
competent
be the
Boards
protection
recently
subsequently
increased
pine
30
nationally.”
accomplishments
rust
colleges.
$400.
FORESTRY
completely
or
towns.
two
during
have
of
State
was
by
upon the had
be
must
was
sub-divisions
H. the
the
or
monies
Re-checking
the
and
and
11
out
season.
have
employed
N.
About
in
cities,
voted
the
should
will
from
men
established,
blister in
acres
combined
with
R’ibes
town
exceeding action
to
of
area,
as
“There
scarcity
project
brief,
may
and
locally
working,
too,
stamp
employed
political
the
schools
Cooperation—1949:
measures
Labor
Following
organizations
wild
current
In
This
crews
re-examining
to
percent.
percent the
its this
ing
up ments
caliber were
trol
to high
contacts
60
towns
available
79
creased
Similar the
ported
states,
gram,
Town
definitely
from
1,600,000 which
ble
control by
destruction.
slightly initial
destroyed.
in
and
cooperation
nition
of
24 1 I
4.
lation
of
the
is
environs,
upon
woods
Prior
the
advance
Control
dance.
possible
cost.
area
purpose
Control
of
which
to
roads
Methods:
Ribes
Such
has
but
scouting,
the
not
is
of
been
measures
also
and
entry
work
determined,
only
shown
determining
to
trails,
carefully
initial,
to
is
of
REPORT
designate
systematically
inspect
the
crews
are
and
their
white
divided
second,
scouted,
OF
the
the
into
thoroughly
accurately
FORESTRY
destruction
distribution
pine
drainage.
an
Appearance
into
third
and
performed
area,
stands,
five
the
the
DIVISION
and
white
scouting
rust
is
types,
of
location
Given
whereabouts
stone-walls
maintenance
effected
of
Ribes
with
pine
inJune.
white
or
these
is
the
areas
of
classes,
and
at
pine
conducted
Ribes.
aid
a
features,
and
their
and
minimum
and
workings.
blister
of
namely,
fences,
popu
a
their
Once
abun
map
for
25 it
of
to
is of
re
the
the the
two
the
this
por
this
Due
will
their
past
long
it
time
acre.
point often
years
situa
white
a
areas
of
lands,
during section
to
years,
report
to
reports
bushes
in
a
$22,000.
crops
to the
through
in
selectmen
of
per
excess
up
to
the
from
have
to
but
during
first
protection
among
pine
3.7
which
same
subsequently
result.
eight
amounted
for given
for
in
disease
the
Congressional
logging
annual
of
abundantly
able
the
to
future
made, made
namely
to
down
re-seed
the
period
and
to
allotment
aid
which
bushes
place
measures
towns,
these
be
is
supplementing
rust
develop,
and
is
a
amendment
five
mapping
adequate
have
of
that
to
protection for
due
in
practices
kept
year,
provided
decrease
being
lands
take
more
an
seeds
average
re-checking
fires
Hampshire
be
pay—(not
COMMISSION
area
Ribes
from
Over
control
Forester
to
or
to
blister
financial
and
was
and
much the
an
which
destruction
of
introduced
by
achieve
Commission’s
to
1949
50
of
of
for
New
cooperating
due
the
amendment
destruction
calendar
available
adequate
Ribes
include
State
primarily
This
to
of
yet
the
importance was
control
areas
logged-off
in
to
covered
of
Ribes
encouraging
continually
about
12
infection
this
In
This the
revealed
methods
wild
Forester,
and
growths law
is
and
of
aid
used
RECREATION
funds
prevented.
vital amount
forth.
bushes
expense
238:
pine
been
coverage
are
of
many
Hampshire,
by
1948.
for
When
selectmen
It
session
is
of
wholesale
workings
new
for
receiving
new
rust
control
set
pine
AND
State
was
the
in
costs,
during
the
is
brought
have
Court.
these
up
New
in
is
white
averaged by
initial
months.
of
Chapter
federal
consists
it
workings
the
rust.
time
of
Efforts
other
and
fund
of
9,
In
soil
than
devise
set
blister
ground.
the
by
damage favorable
population
year)—any
the
which
All
notification
Ribes
legislative
in
to
eventually
maintain
third
FORESTRY
season
available
spring
authorizing
same
General
the
less
the
This
assured
the
species,
state
of
eradication
reduced expended
Section
one
H.
to
in
of
the
cutting
decades,
and
aid
statement
lands from
the
and
states.
and the
prior
be
(1)
to
N.
re-growth
eradication
the
a
becomes
this
that
at
also
any
a
submitted
previously.
by
whereas
ground.
lower
(2)
of
order
which
to
Cooperation—1949:
three
commercial
pine
$9,600.
pine in
trees,
pines
in
appropriation as
in
and
somewhat
winter During
was
second
eradication
then
Federal
the
dormant
or
In
Initial
population
adjacent
acre, towns
and
excessive
more
the
9,
town
$400.
enacted
section divisions;
the
Amendments
to
state
fall,
tion
about
white
action
disease. Federal was
seeded
white.
two
to
young
tion
lain
pine,
disturbances
result
where
necessary
the
per
that
to
experimentation,
result
or
and
over 26
y g g ri a
n • ri [I
e
s s
e e
e
o e f s
t t
e s t
r e
s 1
.
checking
be
toward tection
checking rust
other from
action
interest the
voted
Of
made
control
reached
100 Town
allotment,
higher.
duties
and Based
age
those
months
during
1949
are
son and
days,
described
The Mapping
sists
ordered
stating
available.
the
blister
aerial
towns
Appropriations
daily
is at
is
The
An
also
value
Cooperation—1950
this
mapping
towns.
funds of
to
in
on
improved
total on
through
essential of
much
the
over,
of
next
in
and
of
date
by
important
the
Funds
an
which
and
for the
majority
the
the
disease.
office
elsewhere
photographs.
coverage
blister
these
slightly
and
rust
White
the
of
creation
the
number
for
all-time
a
terminating production
season,
Forestry
future
the
lower
This
total
and
part
Although
and
number
season
protection cities
for
advance
control
several Governor
continuing
work,
was
Pine
technique
surveyors
period
rust
location
action
of of
the
supplemented time
this
A
and
costs.
was
REPORT
working appropriating,
of
in
by
and
and
definitely
made high,
these
further
so
a
was
and
of
the
this
a
use
program
workings,
project
total
necessary
scouting
of
their
of
New
many
being
197.9
Control
was
“sinking
years,
and
the
for
of
in
The
all
Recreation
the
first detailed
actual
to
available report.
maps
has
exceeding
included
OF
appears
the
of
also
proof which
last
their
Council,
white
men
Hampshire
which
towns
acres
were
from
mapping
FORESTRY
brought
bases
Areas—1949:
appropriations
113,595
inaugurated
produced
in
from
and
state’s
are
and
prompted
of
project
fund”
acreage
74
engaged
it
town
of
maps
From
made
pine
maps
$36,400. per
October
necessary, April.
some
such
of
Ribe.s
had
made
clearly
percent
will
are
the
those
state
Commission
out
acres
all
of
most
to
had
eight DIVISION
where
been
of
the
towns
to
available
maps
in
probably
feeling
do
surveys
mapped
its
preliminary
detailed
after
on
eradication
by
the
by
funds.
the
be
indicated
in The
blister
of
voted
on
received
rough
not
were
important
forest
In
this
local
were
completed
hour
the
conducted.
1918.
end
sufficient
control
any
of
areas
through
the
and
areas
that
addition,
exist.
it
through
project, are
$400.
not action mapped
blister
greater
sentiment
daily
that
sketches rust
voted
day.
lands,
year
eradication
developed
cities
a
adequate
control
From
to
are
put
require
surveyed
examination, measures,
wide-spread
timber
each.
when
control
money
During
previously.
be
the
was
of
as
rust
since
Since
one
scheduled
the
although
in
a
has
accuracy
in
returns
of worked.
several
a
federal
which
of
winter
detail.
much
a
start
a
town
aver
maps
This
early
1950
that
pro
tree been
will
con
sea
the
the
re
the
re-
the
are
27 as V V V V V V
I
all
in
at
161
not
Acres
un
ap
1950
rust
close
June
Bushes
Con
of
Mapping
towns
There
weeks
220,719
113,595 107,124
towns, 107,124
be a
Workings
will
on
the
550,969 897,472
Total
report—
AND
All
1,448,441
to
to
Ribes
Destroyed
two blister
appears are
these established,
year.
Other
towns.
this
year 1949
of
No. to
13 in
aggregate
and
mapping
been towns
approved
approximately which
in
cooperating
fiscal
scheduled
Accomplishments
amounted
phases
YEARS
mapping
of
Phe
calendar
had
law
was
Second
these
the
all
Acres
312,626
165,554
147,072
COMMISSION
Covered
the PROGRAM
elsewhere
Council detailed
were
submitted
of in
case Programs rust April
rust
area
of
1950)
summary
53,603
work.
17,479 36,124 Acres
is of
and
the 30,
Re-mapped
the
June.
man-day Laws:
the
during
of
in Federal
blister
and ending
each
condition.
grand
Bushes
control
MAPPING
of
April
through
measures
per
selectmen
As RECREATION
and
accomplished.
in
May
of
OF
the the
herewith 318,616 state
149,934
Revised 168,682
this
CONTROL—FISCAL
in season.
and
Ribes
Governor Destroyed
control
the
AND
in
(As
Working State
was
the
238:
Areas—1950:
accomplishments
performed
No. control
location
field with
the
Mapping—1950.
January
given
of RUST
pine
report.
coverage
of
since
First
performed
Town,
Fall
the the
maintain what
amendment—described
70,605
notified 96,116
of
Acres
date
SUMMARY
Mapped
166,721
Control
Initially
Chapter
this
1950,
included of
from
that
work
to
FORESTRY
surveys
of
9,
section
report results
of
also
the
new and 40,258
13,180
include
27,078
Acres
H.
30,
average
only
Covered
are terminate
accomplishments
Sec.
not
of
N. such
this results
the
belief
the
this
Pine
and
Forester
of
of
The
of
to will
of
all
June
Does
Includes
surveyed the
conclusion
the
important
towns
Totals
Totals
Since
1950, to
conclusion
On
State
All
1949
advance
the
1949
*1950
report
*Note:
SUMMARY—BLISTER
*1950
Year
was
*Note: Programs
acres. lands
approximation acres.
fore,
include
30,
control
Mapping
at
a the
these dertaken,
in
the
forming
plication
Application
it
held
28 a-
mixed
wood
control. killed,
the
portant
that large
times reproduction
This percent
cut-over
of
low
watch
ing.
infested,
Hampshire
and
owners,
These
tations
the
cooperated
owners.
series as by
done
season in
found.
been recent
1949
leader, STATUS
private
White
this
point
New
Pales
planting
Gypsy state,
Plant
insect
and
part
Hemlock
Spruce
suggested
No
in
with
more
must
collected
were
of
forest
of
and
years
that
lands, were
the
insect
the
Observations
but
other
heavy
in Boston
of
meetings
Weevil.
all
The
and
Pine
resulting
and
estates,
Quarantine.
hardwoods
were
probably
1950
by
attention
winter
be
State
on
1949
the
sprayed
a
OF
would
with
trees
Budworm.
from
insect
located
Looper.
but
the
high
to
Browntail
U.
kept
cut-over making
methods
Weevil.
as in
defoliation
reproduction
IMPORTANT
to
surveyed
valuable
and and
populations
the Entomologist
Connecticut
S.
a
planted
the New
then
of
camp
Additional
test
in percentage
in
in
in
REPORT
partial
destroys
by
would Bureau
in
1949-50.
results
1950
indicate
1950
Peterborough
and
the
1951
Town
crooked
an
Small
pine
Hampshire.
protective
be
airplane,
of
Deering
This
lots
State
Moths.
No
hemlock
by
were
Northeast,
intensive
necessary.
hemlock.
and
was
partial
with
control
and
lands.
probably-
OF
were
it
members
on
too
of
severe
areas
of
experiments
insect,
a
River
FOREST
of
that
parks
is
FORESTRY
Concern
and little
and
killed
suffered
lake
considerable
spraying
Pittsburg,
low
state
Entomology
trees
and
the
desired These
unsatisfactory-.
measures
Burning
on
cutting
measure,
of
the
forked
Valley.
damage
survey
Small
were
to outbreak
shores
or
characterized
be by
and
cost state
deforms
hemlock
the
and
of
died.
justify
INSECTS
U.
no over
insects
in
the
devoted
to this DIVISION
may
were forests
vicinity
numbers
being
as
so
S.
slash
federal
defoliation
parks
but
timber.
these
for
of
and
protect,
As
results
the
weevil
is
part
Some
Bureau
well’
and
department
heavily
trees
then
found
the
has
the
were
less seedlings
no
made
a
timberlands
over
serious
borne
to
and
result
areas,
AND
of Seventy
in
expense
as
Plant
officials
as
of
salvage
damage
southern
of been
the
be
in
by
with
protection
under
Were
again
infested
small
stumps,
of
in southern
when
forests
the
the
Peterborough.
occurred.
attacked
consuming required.
killing
by
first
DISEASES
heavy
threat
Entomology
the
but
planted
Quarantine reported
the
insect
and
most
to
at
the
the and
of
work
shelter
advance
has
pine
springs
season.
led
careful
part
eighty
a
result
in
as
some-
spray
found
back
infes
posed
tree
land
very
and
land
New
im
have
1949
been
to
that
well
was
is
on
a
of
29
in
a II
a
is
in
of
ar
re
and
and
the
had
has
other
trees
state.
agent
urged
birch
giving
insect
limita
official
budget
in
by
merely
been
has possible
obscure,
found
as
the
attendant are
is
and
conditions
Committee
Keene
received:
chief
vicinity reactivated
was
has
be
scale
paper
young
other
it
trees
in
far
still
it
infestation
H.
in
special
altitudes,
and
the
dieback
bulletins
or
the
was
as
investigated
Jackson
were
N.
and
are
no
the
foliage
of
Entomologist
there
small
that
cases
would
in
climatic
high
diseases
towns
borer
is
are
a
general send
1934
The
near
beetle,
and
at
that
in
of
suspicious
In
yellow
examination.
most
State confirmed
COMMISSION
Forester
other
wilted
and
reasons
birch
measures
disease
There
County
of
of bark
believed
DISEASES
evidence
In
several
for
complaints
insects,
the
Division
and
dying,
was
The
with
in briefly
elm
outbreak
removed.
indicate been
by
by
bronze County
AND
control
are
dying
by
taken
tree
Carroll
particularly
recovery.
permit.
showing
elms
in
the
combination
long
sampling been
RECREATION
small
drought
in
following
destructive
Forestry
owners.
one
of
trees
disease,
A
proper
Reports some
surveys
European
has
for
state,
damage
sent
sample functioned
AND
Warden,
trees
This have
the investigation.
that
The
travel
this
to
It
excessive
INSECTS
a
the
1950
the
the
the
Many
by
as
that
observing
of
Tree
made
and
condition.
Both
of
such
of
The about
Some
abundant
Aphid.
have
making
causes.
before
timberland infestation
since
believed
to for
FORESTRY
specimens
control.
in
time
good
carrying
FOREST
part
Disease.
Town
being
very
mortality.
advised
received
H. Disease
were
spread.
1949.
time
persons
in
Conway.
on
presence for
alarm summer
is Woolly
initial for
N.
Scale-Nectria. to
are
Elm
of
Hinsdale.
Dieback.
be
to
their
Elm
All
some
the
arrange
year
and
identify
in
generally
the
the
since
decrease
agents owners
to
tions
in
northern
OMPLAINTS
is
Hampshire,
to
can
be
plans
fungus
Dutch
Balsam
Beech
Birch
it
responsibility
Dutch
notify
the
question
C
only
instructions
or
who
borists. to
and
on
During another
responsible
disclosed
New
a
sulted
continuing
Bartlett
and
appear
decided dieback
previous
may
continued
in
but 30 :1
±
*
t
State
Cities
Town
County
State
Federal Agency
PUBLICLY listed
T
*Deeded
Miscellaaeous
White
White White
Pine Hemlock
Sugar
Oak Hemlock Drought
Oyster
Elm
Birch Ambrosia
Balsam
Canker
Uni-vsrsity
Largely Town
Belknap
County
Forestry
Flood
Other
Bombing White
Bear
Sanatorium
Totals
Canker
Leaf
Bark
Total
to in
Maple Dieback
Pine
Pine
Pine
HE
Shell
on
has
public
the
Fir
state
Brook
Injury
forests,
of
Looper
the
Control
Borer
1949
state
Mountain
Beetle
Beetles
farm
Engelmann
Beetles
New OWNED
Blister
Weevil
watershed
Aphid
recreational
Forestry
Range
and
Sawfly
in
Borei
task
and
Scale
been
following
SEASON:
1943.
Reservation*
institutions**
Hampshire.
agencies.
forest
Hospital,
watershed
Recreation
Projects
Rust
and of
made
National
FOREST
Spruce
forests
obtaining
REPORT
Grenier
lands
and
area
Highway
table:
water
of
lands
PUBLIC
Commission
After
Recreation Forest
.
LAND
these
Resources
Field
29
OF
and
3 4
1 2
4
2
1
1
1
1
1 4
1 1
1
1
the
FORESTRY
a
Fish
IN
ten-year
same
FORESTS
area
Board,
&
NEW
Commission
Game
Miscellaneous
White
Twig
Sugar Lumber
Powder Pine
Spruce
White Slime Pine
Hemlock
Gypsy
Pin.e
Aphids
Elm Birch
Bladder Ambrosia
Dutch Birch
of
Laconia
agencies.
DIVISION
Departments.
HAMPSHIRE
forest
interval
Leaf
Twig
Bark
Borers
Pruner
Flux
Maple
Total
781,380
Pine
Pine Pith
Dieback
Elm
663,288
Moth
Gall
State 52,502
41,005
Post
1940
8,237
Maple
Stain
3,425
4,747
6,436
Looper
1950
740
Beetle
Beetles
Aphid
11oth
Weevil
lands Blister Disease Miner
in
Aphids
School,
Area
Borer
Beetles
A
another
SEASON:
Gall
1940
comparison
1940
in
owned
Industrial
Rust
Suspect
Acres
undertook
AND
estimate
800,437
670,119
by
10,677 40,967
55,649
School,
1950
3,875
5,817 2,849
9,569
1950
915
all
is
39
31
11
2
1
1
1
1
1
1 2
1 1
1
2
1
2 4
1
2
1
1 1
1
I
to
Cost
ap
and
25.00
10.00
land
has
750.00
area
000.00
140.00 180.00
Con
250.00
area
000.00
‘100.00
have
‘250.00
acres
acres
hold
were
Bear
$200.00
lands
acres,
shows
2,300.00
2
Peter-
makes
forest
18,000.00
33
of
Boston
$57,205.00
making
separate
title
23
the
transfers
860
additional
land
the
retain
1829
cities
table
Forest
Rights
Rights
acres.
tracts and
acres
holdings
Department
138
by
New
in
forested
Federal
of
Park,
holds
S.
in defaulted The
,, years ,, ,, I, “
,, many
,,
AREAS
are
including
public
1864
farms
Acquired
The
of
U.
taxes exchanges
acres
increased
53,820
by
Purchase
whole
of
federal
National
state
following
two
range
How
as
the
total
200
reduction
addition
There
Bellamy
Recreation
and
the
their
acres,
COMMISSION
other
the
county 1950: ,,
,, the ,, ,,
,, The ,,
,,
total
of
past
number
holdings.
of
1950
1949
Year
and
The
a
net
from 12
and
area
report
and
and
860
1949-1950
were
the
Mountain
bombing
Hampshire.
7
0
9
3
1
0
paying
cent
land Commission
10
14 25 80
which
The
266
345
gifts,
100
Dover,
last
noticeable
smaller
1949
areas.
RECREATIONAL
increased
Brook
to
The
Acreage
are per
making
involved.
a
of
New
A
by
RECREATION
There
Commission.
Forestry
White
these
the
Purchases
during
16
to
in
transferred
was
in
Bear acres.
years
City
AND
acres
AND
the
the
institutions
supply
acres
1943.
due
Recreation
owners
Town
Peterborough,
State
35
projects the
Hilisboro
Hilisboro
Conway Conway Tamworth
Conway Hollis
was Jaifrey
Newbury
the Rye Newbury
Newbury Newbury
about
the
reduce
by
in
ACQUISITIONS
is
towns.
acreage.
804
that
of
of
state
to
holdings
to
and
acreage
The
55,649
are
water
departments,
reported
area
103
supervision
state
its
of
FORESTRY
towns
during
FORESTS of
same
control
property Addition
totaling
in
made
its
H.
Other
Town
noticed
area
the
other
the
addition
the
acres.
N.
Addition
State
Park
Addition
be Addition
total
Forestry
purchases,
to
agencies
that
Addition
Addition
Addition
flood
change
administered
by
the
eventually
were
by Pool,
additional
the
by
STATE Lake
Lake
Lake
increased
under
by
from
all
located
is
no
to
will
Lake
Lake
HE
state.
recreational
Lake Lake
Lake
to
12,000
held Forest
of Forest
four
Harbor
acquisitions
Monadnock
Sunapee
It
effort
the
present
Interior
Silver
Fox
Fox
Echo White
Sunapee
Sunapee Mt. Echo
Sunapee Echo
i1t.
Rye
Acquired
the
which where
added tracts
a
and borough veyances
T
an
indicating acquired
of
ings
proximately
acquisitions. area
over increased
of
and
Brook
slightly
32 i:.
•
4
•
•
the
acquisition with
R.
of the
to
the
has
areas poses.
southerly
White
PURCHASES
Peterborough
Bellamy
Province
Sunapee
Pierce
Webster
Dustin
Hilton
Fox Annett
Red
Mt.
Kearsarge
Duncan
Mt.
the
obtain
Waidron,
state
lake.
summer
been
During
Total
Sunapee
7,200 Monadnock
Hill
Forest
in
Lake
Frank
Park
This
Res.
Park
New
Lake
Road
from
Lookout
entire
Acquired
no
Satisfactory
shores
Addition
was
feet
Mt.
Addition
Park
months.
Present Pool Addition
Net
acquisition Last
Lord Total
Jr., the
spare
Hampshire
the
approved
Addition
possession
of
Addition
Addition
of
year
Reported
of
Decrease
Estate;
Transfers
owners
space
shore
Acreage
Peterborough,
White
REPORT
During
terms
1933
Peterborough
has Dover
Groton
Newbury
for
by
Hilisboro
Franklin
Concord
Newington—12
Dover—12
Hillsboro
Moultonboro Rindge
Jaifrey
New
for
Warner
an
Goshen
Mrs.
frontage
of
From
Conveyed
Lake
the resulted
bathing,
the
option
were
OF
the
the
parking
Hampton
Exchanges
Addie
Governor
Other
FORESTRY
state
shores
in
Gifts
past
finally
agreed
by
to
53,820
for
55,649
35 23
12
Tamworth
in
1,829
camping
Mclndoe
0
0 State
purchase
State
facilities
year
one
purchased
the
of
obtained
1949
and
1950
1949
Departments DIVISION
to
“
Wbite
of
an
price
sell
and the
Council of
(138
150
521
100
effort
25
10
24 87
53
additional 33
for
1,864
Towns)
on
1
0
Ossipee
200
804
most
Lake
345
from
of
picnicking.
258
Tracts
Conveyed
weekends
Exchange
recreational
Exchange
1949
1950
1950
1949
acreage
acreage
$33,000.
has
and
“
“
“
“
“
acres
“
“
acres
popular
the
and
and
located
been
land
now
Trustees
by
some
Transfer
“
with
with
of
Jeremy
on
during
Gift
There
about
gives
State
made
“
“
“
“
“
in
state
This
land
pur
“
same
same
the
of
103 33 34 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION the largest white pine trees in that section. It also provides sufficient camping and parking area for future development. Echo Lake Addition Additional acreage was acquired at the north end of Echo Lake, North Conway to join the Echo Lake Reservation with Cathedral and White Horse Ledges. Three tracts of land were purchased from the following owners all living in Conway: Mrs. Mary Mausert, 7 acres at a cost of $140; Henry Hatch, 9 acres costing $180 and Arthur Aguere, 25 acres costing $2,300. The first two purchases are mostly open land while the last tract contains about 200 M. bd. ft. of white pine. Silver Lake A recreational area of 80 acres in the Town of Hollis was pur chased from the Silver Lake Corporation for $18,000. This area in cludes the northern portion of Silver Lake with a fine beach, a set of farm buildings, concessionaire camps, excellent parking area and valuable woodlands. Lake Sunapee A public beach of 18 acres has been acquired on the westerly shore of Lake Sunapee. This tract was purchased from three mdi viduals as follows: Martin P. Perkins of Newbury, 14 acres cost ing $2,000 including the main beach and 3 acres of open land; George A. Snow of Newport, 1 acre costing $250 and including the land at the entrance road to the beach, and Walker, Wilder and Davis Company, John A. Davis, Treasurer, of Sterling, Mass., 3 acres costing $250. This last area was located on Mountain Brook near the beach. Mt. Sunapee State Park The Town of Newbury offered 100 acres on Mt. Sunapee on the easterly slopes of the tramway area to the state for $2.00 an acre. This lot was purchased from the town and includes mostly hardwood. Fox Forest Additions A 10-acre strip of forest land lying between the Fox Forest and a road was purchased from Elgin and Joy K. Sherk of Lisbon for ‘, $100. This tract contains some fine hardwoods and is valuable because it improves the accessibility of other parts of the forest. An area of 266 acres lying between the forest and the town road on the east was purchased from Max Israel of Henniker for $750. This area in cludes a small pond and much young timber. REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 35
Rye Harbor Mr. Erwin C. Philbrick of Rye deeded to the state a right-of-way over his land from the main road to state land. The cost of this con veyance was $10.00. GIFTS Mt. Kearsarge Addition The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests con veyed by gift to the state 521 acres on the southerly slopes of Kear sarge in the Town of Warner. This tract includes the upper portion of the mountain road and extends to the summit. Appropriate exer cises were held on June 17, 1950 at the upper parking place dedicating this tract as a memorial to Frank W. Rollins, first President of the Society. Many notable persons attended this ceremony including Governor Adams. Annett Addition A tract of 53 acres in the Town of Rindge and adjacent to the Annett Reservation was given by Mrs. Marietta E. Annett of Clare mont, who has carried out a provision in the will of her late husband, Cecil Annett, that this land should be given to the state. Duncan Mr. George H. Duncan of Jaifrey gave to the state a tract of land of 100 acres in the Town of New Hampton. This lot is located on a slope south of New Hampton Village and is covered with valuable young hardwoods. Fox Forest Addition A tract of 87 acres of forest land adjacent to the Fox Forest was given to the state by the Oxford Timber Corporation of Oxford, Mass. This lot has recently been cut over but contains scattered groups of white pine, hemlock and birch. Mt. Sunapee Park Addition In the last biennial report reference was made to the authoriza tion for the construction of an aerial tramway on Mt. Sunapee in the Town of Newbury. Deeds covering this acquisition amounting to 1,644 acres have been turned over to the Commission. An additional conveyance by the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was made on January 30, 1949 of a tract of 33 acres in the Town of Goshen as a gift to the state. Mt. Monadnock To improve and shorten the distance of a right-of-way from the main highway to the Monadnock Reservation in Jaifrey the Society 36 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION gave to the state a right-of-way crossing over its lands. At the same time a right-of-way was acquired at a cost of $25.00 from the Ark Corporation, Charles W. Bacon, Jr., President. Red Hill Lookout Mr. Edward Dane of Brookline, Mass., deeded as a gift 10 acres of land on the summit of Red Hill, Moultonboro, which has been operated as a lookout station since 1926. Mr. Dane’s father made possible the operation of this lookout when he paid for the construc tion of the tower and cabin and presented them to the state. There is sufficient wood on this tract for the watchman’s use. TRANSFERS I1 Under the reorganization act passed by the last Legislature cer tain tracts of land were transferred from the supervision of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to the Forestry and Recre ation Commission. These tracts included the Daniel Webster Birth place, Franklin, 150 acres; the Franklin Pierce Homestead, Hilisboro, 25 acres, and the Hannah Dustin Monument, Concord, 1 acre. The reorganization act took effect July 1, 1950. Also transferred from the State Highway Department was Hilton Park, 24 acres, (Newington—12 acres and Dover—12 acres). These lands lie on both sides of the General Sullivan Bridge crossing Great Bay in Portsmouth. The Governor and Council affirmed this transfer October 18, 1949. EXCHANGES Lake Sunapee
In building an entrance road to Lake Sunapee beach it was neces- * sary to change the channel of Mountain Brook flowing into the lake. Certain portions of the brook were filled in and a new channel made running directly to the lake. In order to carry out this engineering no program several landowners exchanged land with the state at v expense to either party. These landowners were Georgia R. Brown of Meirose, Mass., Roy E. Densmore and Joshua S. Hirsch of Newport and Fred H. Thompson and Ross Snow of Newbury. These persons conveyed by quitclaim deed to the state their rights for the change in the crossing of this brook, and no additional land was obtained by the state. Province Road Recent surveys carried on by the Draper Corporation of Hope dale, Mass., indicated that a strip of land of about 20 acres to the west of the Old Province Road in Groton did not belong to the state. As REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 37
the Draper Corporation was willing to convey a similar area on the easterly side of this same road, the state agreed to relinquish any claim to the first mentioned tract. As a result of this arrangement, the state simply exchanged areas with no change in acreage.
CONVEYED BY THE STATE
Bellamy Park The Governor and Council voted on August 12, 1949 to convey to the City of Dover 23 acres known as Bellamy Park, including build ings, structures and improvements. This conveyance was made be cause of the difficulties involved in maintaining and supervising this recreational area by the state.
Peterborough Pool By a similar vote and as mentioned above 12 acres including the Pool, buildings and structures were conveyed to the Town of Peter- borough.
MANAGEMENT OF STATE FORESTS
URING the two-year period ending June 30, 1950, a number of timber sales and other cutting operations were carried out under the supervision of the Concord office staff. The usual practice has been to mark trees or the area to be cut, keep ing a tally of each tree from which the volume to be cut can be computed. Where the amount to be sold exceeds 50 M. bd. ft. the sale is advertised to the public and sealed bids solicited. The sale is made to the highest bidder or in the event all bids are unsatisfac tory a sale is negotiated, usually with the highest bidder, and the subsequent cutting operation inspected at intervals by a forester from the main office to insure that contract provisions are complied with. Smaller sales are made by contacting a number of buyers and getting informal offers. Where it is impractical to make sales on the stump, contractors are engaged to cut and deliver the products to the roadside where they are sold. This is frequently true of cordwood and pulpwood operations.
L. ‘4
79.00
813.96 585.00 420.00 200.00 311.88 533.00 260.81 715.00 186.40
Total
5,910.22 2,900.00 2,433.31 4,795.66
$9,176.82
$29,321.06
79.00 85.76
PRODUCTS
813.96
420.00 200.00 533.00 114.51 260.81
2,784.75 4,795.66
1949-50
$6,559.95
$16,647.40
COMMISSION
1950
FOREST
AND
OF
585.00
311.88 629.24 186.40
FORESTS
2,318.80 3,125.47 2,900.00 1948-49
$2,616.87
1949
$12,673.66
RECREATION
SALE
STATE
YEARS
AND
FROM
FROM
Park
FISCAL
Park
FORESTRY
Park
State
H.
RECEIPTS
State
N.
Nursery
State
Lakes
Notch
GROSS
Total
Forest
Mine
Brook
Pond
38 Scribner-Fellows
Forest Crawford Davisville Bear Connecticut Pillsbury Stevens Eaton Hemenway Fox Gay Sky Lead State Harriman-Chandler I REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 39
STATE FOREST OPERATIONS
ORESTRY operations were carried out on a F number of state for ests, parks and reser vations, the total financial results of which are sum marized in the accompany ing table. Income received included leases, rentals and fees, sale of real estate and other property. The more important of these transac tions are discussed be low. The remainder of the income consisted of pro ceeds from timber sales, both stumpage sales of standing wood and timber, and sales of products cut by employees and contrac tors. Descriptions of the character of these opera tions are given in a few cases. Expenditures were made for salaries of patrol men, caretakers, travel and trucking, and repairs and improvements.
Bear Brook State Park Forestry operations cov ered a total of 259 acres at Bear Brook Park during the biennial period. Four harvest operations over an area of 107 acres yielded 299,700 bd. ft. of sawtimber 40 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
FOREST IMPROVEMENT AND RECREATIONAL FUND
FISCAL YEARS JULY 1, 1948 TO JUNE 30, 1950 FORESTRY DIVISION
Name of State Forest or Reservation Income Expenditures Balance Balance July 1, 1948 $20,917.58 Alton Bay $1.00 1.00 Annett 35.00 35.00 Bear Brook State Park 9,176.82 $16,570.60 —7,393.78 Black Mountain 5,010.00 691.17 4,318.83 Blair 20.00 20.00 Bowditch-Runnells 2.36 —2.36 Cardigan Reservation 181.00 52.53 128.47 Cardigan Mt. CCC Camp 23.34 —23.34 Casalis 473.50 107.31 366.19 Connecticut Lakes State Park 2,581.46 649.43 1,932.03 Contoocook 63.64 —63.64 Crawford Notch Reservation 8,317.80 4,281.74 4,036.06 Davisville 420.00 5.00 415.00 Duncan 9.28 —9.28 Eaton 2,900.00 1,927.01 972.99 Franconia Notch Reservation 90.00 90.00 Gay 585.00 13.38 571.62 Governor Wentworth Farm 35.93 —35.93 Harriman-Chandler 200.00 200.00 Haven 5.00 5.00 Hemenway Reservation 729.00 841.84 —112.84 Jaifrey CCC Camp 23.35 —23.35 Johnson 107.86 —107.86 Kearsarge Reservation 9.89 —9.89 Lead Mine 300.81 100.73 200.08 Livermore Falls 20.00 20.00 Merrimack River 104.74 —104.74 Nottingham 4.65 —4.65 Page 1.30 —1.30 Pillsbury Reservation 1,048.70 224.51 824.19 Province Road 1.50 —1.50 Ragged Mt 8.36 —8.36 Rocky Pond Islands 40.00 40.00 Russell-Abbott 19.04 19.04 Rye Harbor State Park 11.15 —11.15 Scribner-Fellows 326.88 588.50 —261.62 Shaker 37.09 —37.09 Sky Pond 537.00 23.45 513.55 Smart’s Mountain 2.00 2.00 State Forest Nursery 4,829.81 3,841.37 988.44 Stevens Pines 186.40 186.40 Stockdale 440.00 213.87 226.13 Sugar Hill 2.00 2.00 Sunapee Reservation 1.18 —1.18 Taylor 25.00 25.00 Varney 1.40 —1.40 Vincent 13.00 —13.00 Waldron 3.00 3.00 Wantastiquet Mountain 4.00 4.00 Warner CCC Camp 252.50 238.70 13.80 Administration 5.00 7,462.16 —7,457.16 Total $38,767.72 $38,293.32 Balance June 30, 1950 $21,391.98
1 Slash bd. and of and this of half cordwood. $1.78/M
Connecticut prices area tion
patrol, for assistant of painted taker 25 when Pulpwood a side
Thinning
return
36,000
undesirable
birch
Taylor
ft.
acres
the 18
cordwood.
Seasonal
work,
of
were
boundaries
of
disposal
salaries not
quoted
and
cords
plantation, and
which
with
supervision 68
for
25-year
of dieback
bd.
of caretaker
State Lakes
salvaged
maintained needed
$1.00/cord.
but
A
acres
removing
$2,318.80.
tle
of
young
blue ft.
patrol
above
negative
was
and on
hardwoods
the
pulpwood,
Release
Forest
and
timber
red
of
prompted
from
17
on paint.
borne REPORT
miscellaneous
sale from
and
was the
stands
of
are
pine
123 acres
fire
dead
when
the
which stumpage
cutting, Thinning
general
and
of
net,
reservation
cords
by employed
this
Other
patrol at
overtopping
was OF
products
trees
camping
and
a
the
the an
$.85/cord
including FORESTRY
hardwood
work were
of
done
average
supervision mainly work
doing
comprised Recreation
ground
work
expenses that
return
wood.
from
cut
sold
helped
were
area. at
accomplished
were
for
deductions
on roadside
young
the
a DIVISION
stumpage
360
was
stumpage
for
of
Stumpage June
total
67
pulpwood,
re-blazed
including
planting
removal
Expenses of
Division.
reduce $.40/cord
road
cords
$114.51.
acres free
pine,
the
cost
1st
improvement
hazards.
for
price
of
road
of
sale
resulted
by
to the
values
of
of covered
trees,
and truck
snow. excelsior
included
pulpwood
overhead.
resulted
All
the
October
The
$170.49,
an
and
overall
that of
the
stumpage
overstory
$10.23/M
caretaker
averaged
costs
releasing
presence
in
reserva
All
a
A
yielded
blazes
work.
a
wood
from
care
total
cost.
15th
lady
one-
out
and
cut
for
41
I II II 42 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
Contoocook Part of the red pine plantation bordering the highway was thinned and cleaned up for a demonstration area. Crawford Notch Public use areas and buildings were given the usual care and maintenance by a caretaker and lady assistant caretaker under the supervision of the Forestry Division until December, 1949, when this work was turned over to the Recreation Division. Income was re ceived chiefly from rentals and fees and from a stumpage sale of hardwood pulpwood. Davisville A selection cutting of coarser trees in a medium-aged pine stand was carried out by a stumpage sale of marked trees. Fox
The plan of improving one-tenth of the area each year has been followed, including a number of operations ranging from clear cutting followed by planting, to weeding and pruning in young stands. The bulk of the cut has been in selection cuttings and thinnings. A total of 82 M bd. ft, of sawtimber and over 600 cords of pulpwood and cord- wood were cut. Receipts totalled $5,910.22 and operating expenses $8,519.20 with $5,151.20 worth of products on hand at the end of the last fiscal year. Most of the latter has since been sold. Lead Mine A sale of selectively marked beech, birch, poplar and soft maple stumpage was made at an average price of $5.50 per cord. A large percentage of the marked trees was suitable only for making cores. Any part of the tree unfit for cores was cut into pulp-or cordwood. A low quality site of a few acres at the southeast corner of the tract produced only poor quality hardwoods. This was heavily marked with the purpose of changing the stand to softwoods. The area should be planted to spruce. Nursery Forest improvement work by the regular nursery force in the winter of 1949 consisted of strip cutting and thinning of middle-aged stands that amounted to 78,750 bd. ft. with a stumpage return of $7.30 per M. In the winter of 1950, the nursery crew thinned an area one-half mile from the road making a cut of 89,000 bd. ft. The logs were yarded and stacked on rollways for an advertised sale. This proved to be an expensive method of handling logs and returned a stumpage of only $5.50 per M. REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 43
Pillsbury This area continued as a “Game Refuge” with the Fish and Game Department sharing one-half of the caretaker’s salary. Two. miles of telephone line serving the area and for which the state is respon sible were rebuilt. Income was received from leases and camping permits and from the sale of hardwood stumpage. Nottingham A light selection cutting was made in this roadside area from which about 4,000 bd. ft. were sold. Scribner-Fellows A light thinning of middle-aged white pine was made, cutting 13,560 bd. ft. of sawtimber on an area of about five acres. Sky Pond A stumpage sale of mixed pine and hardwoods, marked prin cipally as a thinning operation, was made. Stevens A stumpage sale of 23,3O0 bd. ft. was made from which $8.00 per M was realized. Vincent Work on this area was confined to a small amount of release cut ting and weevil-repair pruning in spruce plantations.
FORESTRY DEMON STRATION AREAS Attractive rustic signs were erected along main highways to call attention to forestry operations on state forests bordering the highways. So far these markers have been established at Bear Brook State Park, Contoocook, Da visville, Fox and Scribner Fellows State Forests. I.,
TOWN AND CITY FORESTS UESTIONNAIRES concerning information about forest lands held by the towns and cities were sent out by the Tax and Q Forestry and Recreation Commissions in 1940 and 1950. A study of these figures indicates that there are 62 towns which do not have title to forest lands. During the last ten years the num ber of towns has been reduced by 16, but the gross acreage has in- 44 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION creased by 3,575 acres which is in line with the rising of real estate values. The records indicate that towns are still plagued with non payment of taxes on forest lands, but improvement is noted that the total acreage is gradually decreasing. Lands acquired by both pur chases and gifts show an increase. The questionnaires also indicate that in many towns new boards of selectmen often overlook certain forest lands that may have been held by the town over a period of years. In several cases it was necessary to check the returns with other records held by the department for 20 years or more. This fact applies especially to gifts and purchases. Special mention is made of certain towns because of their hand ling of town forest lands in good forest practice and management. Warren The Town of Warren has title to three tracts of land totalling 194 acres with an estimated value of $1,275. Most important of these tracts is a 100-acre lot which was acquired by the town in 1914 from a citizen who deeded his 1t with the understanding that the town should care for him the remainder of his life. Between 1927 and 1930 the 4-H Forestry Club of the town planted a total of 20,000 trees on open land on this farm. In 1943 the town authorized the selectmen to sell stumpage on one part of the lot. Bids were asked and 156,000 feet of timber were sold at $8.00 a thousand by which the town received $1,254. This money was put into a general fund and used to help clear up a part of the town debt and also used to repair some of the damage caused by the flood of June 14, 1942. The pine plantation has been cared for and all trees removed which have been infected by blister rust. At the present time the lot is in good condi tion and there is still some valuable timber which can be sold by the town at a later date. Another lot of 44 acres was acquired by the town. The town took over this lot in payment for special care at the county hospital during the last illness of the owner. The town still has one other tract of 50 acres which was acquired by tax col lector’s deed and this lot may be sold by the town at a later date.
Orford The Town of Orford has 950 acres of school lands which are under lease to private individuals for a certain yearly rental. The total rentals received by the town average about $150 yearly. This fund is turned over to the school district to be used for any purpose au thorized by the selectmen. School lands were probably originally unallotted and have remained in the ownership of the town since it was organized. The original proprietors and boards of selectmen have
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REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 45
made leases of these tracts at a rental which has been determined a long time ago. These lands are not taxed by the town but the buildings on them are. When timberhas been cut, a tax is paid on its value. There have been a few lots sold by the town in recent •* years but the lessees prefer to hold on to these lands and pay a low rental. By this arrangement it appears that the town is the loser under the present system as the holder of a leased lot pays the same annual rental. This rental has not changed probably during the past 50 years. The town has acquired another tract of 300 acres which has been heavily cut over but has a good crop of growing Christmas trees • The selectmen estimate the value at $500 but do not expect to sell this lot because of valuable young trees that are scattered over most of the area. It is believed that the sale of some of these Christmas trees would probably reimburse the town. Weare In 1940 the Town of Weare acquired a large tract of forest land of about 750 acres which the selectmen decided should be held by the town. At a meeting in 1948 a vote was taken to declare this big tract of land a town forest which has between 400 and 500 thousand feet of timber and is carried on the town books for $3,000. In 1948 it was decided to build a new fire station and about 125,000 feet of pine were cut from this lot and used to help construct this building. This lot has also furnished 3,000 feet of hemlock for town bridges and about 5,000 feet was cut to help construct the East Weare Fire Station. These operations have been carried on under super vision of state and county foresters who have located the cut and assisted the town in the plan of management. The town also has a town farm of 150 acres which was acquired during Civil War days and on which 2,500 white pines have been planted. The lumber on this lot was cut several years ago and the income placed in the general fund of the town and used for various purposes. In addition to these lands the town has several tracts of forest land which have been acquired by defaulted taxes. Some of these lots may be sold by the town provided a suitable purchaser can be found. Walpole The Town of Walpole has been fortunate in being beneficiary of the Hooper Estate and the Mason Estate. Certain real estate was left to the town in 1926 by Mr. Hooper which consisted of 200 acres of land, a portion forested and a trust fund of $85,000. About 40 acres of pine have been planted and 70 lvi ft. of lumber cut on the town forest. The selectmen, who are supervisors of the handling of the estate, have spent $3,000 in repair of the Hooper home which is 46 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
H now a Golf Club House and have turned over $5,000 to the school fund. In 1947 Miss Mason died leaving to the town 267 acres containing some of the largest timber in that part of the state, about 1.5 million board feet, and a $10,000 fund. The income of this fund is to be used for the upkeep and management of the tract of woodland which is now a town forest. The selectmen whose duty is to care for the handling of this valuable tract requested the Cheshire County Forester to make a survey and management plan. In 1950, 225 M feet of pine, hemlock and hardwoods were marked for cutting and bids called for. The highest was $16.21 per M and the proceeds of the sale, amounting to $3,500, were put into the town fund. Four thousand red pine were planted last year and another timber cut is being planned. The Chair man of the Selectmen has done well in handling these properties.
H Semi-Public Forest Lands An additional study was made of semi-public agencies holding forest lands. An estimate of the holdings is as follows: The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Appalachian Mountain Club, N. H. Historical Society, Bird Sanctuaries, etc., 6,300 acres; Dartmouth College, Yale and Harvard Universities, etc., 28,590 acres; public and private schools, etc., 2,300 acres; church lots in Orford, ‘f Plainfield, Newington, Danville, Grantham, Shelburne, Claremont, I Northwood, 825 acres. Public School Forests. Walpole High School has 100 acres of and scrub land. This project started in 1928, and for each pasturesucceeding year until completed, 10,000 four-year old white and red pine transplants were planted. Some thinning and pruning has been done in this area. Alvirne School, Hudson, owns 150 acres of timberland which were acquired within the past three years by will. One-half acre has been clear cut, two acres have been thinned and pruned and 16,000 feet of lumber have been cut to be used for the school shop, farm building repair and construction. Pinkerton Academy, Derry. Fifty acres of timberland were purchased by the school. Seven acres have been thinned and pruned, four acres have been cleared for pasthre land and 20,000 feet of lumber have been cut to build farm buildings. Open areas have been planted to pine. Dover High School. Fifty acres of timber and waste land are REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 47 owned. A small amount of thinning and pruning has been accom plished, and some of the area has been planted. Church Forests Danville Every year at the March town meeting in Danville an item is in cluded in the warrant: “To see how much of the Parsonage Fund the Town will vote to spend for preaching for the year ensuing.” Thus the Town of Danville hires its own preacher and decides how much money it will pay him. The first settled minister in 1763 was Rev. John Page and his salary was forty-five pounds sterling and twenty- five cords of wood. From that time to the present many preachers have carried on the work of the Gospel and have been paid in part from the sale of wood from the two town forests of seventy-five acres. From the sale of timber by careful management over $10,000 has been placed in banks and this income goes annually to the parsonage committees.
Danville Parish house. Newington Probably the oldest church lot in America is located in the Town of Newington. This tract of land containing 42 acres was never al lotted by the proprietors and within its boundaries are the old Con gregational Church built in 1710 by citizens of the town who con- 48 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION tributed labor, materials and cash. Prior to the Civil War the lot was used for raising crops. In 1889 a forest fire burned part of this lot, threatened the church and the town house. In 1765 the town acquired the Parsonage Lot and since that time many boards of select men have managed this woocflot, giving fuel to the town poor and allowing citizens to cut their own wood. In 1892 some timber was cut and the town realized $1,400. In 1912 more timber was cut and $700 was added to the church fund. At the present time excellent stands of young pine and hardwood are growing for future genera tions.
Orford A woodlot of 60 acres has been owned by the Congregational Society of Orford for many years. Ownership of this lot may have come to the church from the original layout of the town. No records seem available. Some wood and timber have been cut and the funds derived placed in a trust fund, the income going to the maintenance of the church. Recently the New England Power Company acquired 15 acres of church land which is part of the fiowage caused by a dam built at Hanover. The church was required to petition the court to sell this small tract and upon approval the church received $1,000. This sum has been turned over to the trust fund which is under the supervision of the selectmen. Northwood Reference is made to the 1947-48 Commission report of the timber cut on the Parsonage Lot and the fund which all the Northwood churches received in 1949. This Parsonage Lot was set aside in 1773 when Northwood was a part of Nottingham. The lot cannot be sold but the revenue is divided among the churches. REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 49
WHITE MOUNTAIN NATIONAL FOREST
I
HE Forest has increased in size in the past two years. A small appropriation for land acquisition has made possible the pur T chase of several small tracts of land that fitted in nicely with present ownership. These purchases totalled about 11,400 acres at an average cost of approximately $6.00 per acre. There has also been a donation of 1,800 acres from Mrs. George T. Mead of Center Harbor, N. H., and Hartford, Conn. Road building has not been a very booming activity since prewar days, but some additional roads have been constructed. The Bog Dam Road has been completed. This taps some 15 million feet of timber in the Upper Ammonoosuc River. About nine million feet have been cut and hauled out over the road. in the past five years. The large area drained by the Sawyer River in Livermore is being made accessi ble by a new road. The road is completed for two miles. As soon as rn,ore money is available, the road will be extended to make the whole valley accessible. The Kancamaugus Highway from Conway to Lincoln is progress ing as rapidly as the accumulation of Forest Highway funds will allow. About three miles were added in 1949 on the Conway side. Work is now in progress on the Lincoln side, and the road will prob ably be finished from Lincoln to the height of land during 1951. There will be left about five miles to be built to connect the two ends. In spite of shortage of funds the recreation areas on the Forest have been kept in usable condition. One way that this was accom plished was by letting the Campton Pond area out on a concession. The proprietor is allowed to charge a small fee for camping, (SOc per night per party of six or less or $3.00 per week. No charge for chil dren under 12 years of age.) In consideration of the money collected, the proprietor paid a small rental fee to the government and did all the work of policing, garbage disposal, and all the other numerous jobs connected with running a camp ground. The arrangement seemed to work out well for the Forest, the permittee, and the campers. 50 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
The largest timber sale that has been made on the Forest for over 20 years was consummated last August. It involves an estimated 50,000 cords of wood in Wild River. The wood consists of about 60% hardwood and 40% softwood. About one-third of the wood is suit able for veneer, sawlogs, or other .high quality material. The rest is of pulpwood size and quality. The timber was purchased by the Nadeau Lumber Company of Berlin, New Hampshire. The company cuts the timber into its various products. Timber of good size and quality goes into sawlogs, veneer, or turning stock. The rest goes into pulpwood. This is the kind of operation that foresters dream about but seldom see on a large commercial operation. The big ad vantage of this kind of cutting is that the poor, hitherto unsalable hardwoods are taken out leaving room for better trees to grow. The amount and value of timber cut for the last two fiscal years (ending June 30, 1950) are shown below: Amount Cut Value 1949 15,473,000 bd. ft. 107,291.00 1950 14,595,000 bd. ft. $ 96,982.00
STATE FOREST NURSERY
HE distribution of forest planting stock to New Hampshire land owners has continued to show a slow but steady increase T since the low of 1943, as shown in the graph on Page 71. Greater increase would have occurred if it had been possible to provide larger amounts of white spruce and balsam fir, since land owners are more interested in growing larger amounts of these species for the Christmas tree market. Satisfactory seed of several im portant species has not been obtainable. Red pine seed of questionable quality reached an all-time high of $35.00 per pound in 1949 and it did not seem advisable to spend that amount of money for what might prove a poor investment. The same policies have been continued in growing and offering only the more important timber-producing species at less than cost to individuals, and giving white and red pine free to all state, county and municipal agencies in unlimited amounts, and to boys and girls educational groups in limited amounts. The following table shows the distribution of 203,950 free trees. Water
Laconia
Dummer Concord Hanover Bennington Troy Manchester Hinsdale Walpole Meredith Wilton Newport
Cheshire Hillsborough Belknap Rockingham Grafton Merrimack Strafford Grand Sullivan
Trees Trees Trees Trees Trees
Total
Total
for used sold given Resources given
Total
State
County
County
County
County
County
experimental
to Cities
County
on
State
211 County to
to 11
Fiscal
County
FREE
private
School
4-H
state
towns
4-H
Towns
Members
Board
VALUE
and
Agencies
Clubs
and
FISCAL
Years
lands
DISTRIBUTION
planters
Towns
REPORT
14,000 planting 25,950
10,700 11,500
other
4,000 1,000 8,600 5,000 8,100 2,000 7,000 7,000 1,000 1,000 4,250 9,500
1,050 7,900 1,500
OF
400
500
Ending
YEARS
54,200 72,350
NURSERY
juvenile
5,400
OF
on
June
FORESTRY
burned
1948-49
clubs
Alstead,
Colebrook, OF Dover, Northwood, Hopkinton, Goffstown, Conway, New Hudson, Derry, Nashua, Nashua, West Laconia, Warner, Walpole, Tilton, 30, Orford, Rochester,
STOCK
1949
areas
PLANTING
Agricultural
Boston,
Lebanon,
AND
Total
Pinkerton
Dover
DIVISION
Northfield
Orford
Alvirne Vilas Nashua
and Quincy
Kennett
Laconia
Simonds
Walpole
PRODUCED
Colebrook
Goffstown
Spaulding
Hopkinton
1949-50
Coe-Brown
19
Other
June New
High
High
$4,146.03
$4,809.19
West
Schools
High
St. School
High
1949
Academy 430.01
109.26
High
High
High
STOCK
High
Boston
40.50 High 83.39
30,
High
Schools
School
Lebanon
Academy
High High
1950
High
Schools
Academy ‘—
High
High
and
$6,771.93
$7,281.39
203,950
1950
10,500
14,050
72,000 11,000
267.68
169.00
3,000 5,350 1,200 2,700 2,500 3,500 2,600 1,000
1,100 3,050 7,700
72.78
900
400
500 900 51
50
/
L f a
Ca t’3
NURSERY OUTPUT — NUMBER OF TREES
Fall, 1948 — Spring, 1949 Age of Stock White Pine Red Pine White Spruce Balsam Fir White Ash Total z
4 yr. transplants 79,600 40,700 25,650 - 145,950 3 yr. root-pruned seedlings 248,555 290,960 130,010 50,011 719,536 2 yr. seedlings 1,410 1,410 0 N Total 328,155 290,960 170,710 75,661 1,410 866,896 N (12
Fall, 1949 — Spring, 1950 N 4 yr. transplants 116,500 19,800 70,825 17,950 225,075 3 yr. root-pruned seedlings 612,812 433,362 79,800 3,462 1,129,436 z Total 729,312 453,162 150,625 21,412 1,354,511 N N C) N REFORESTATION ON STATE FORESTS N 1948-49 and 1949-50 ‘-3 Area Number of Trees Planted 0 Planted White Red White Balsam z C) Forest (Acres) Pine Pine Spruce Fir Misc. -Total 0 Connecticut Lakes 15 4,450 550 5,000 Davisville 1 100 100 , 200 (12 Fox 19 3,375 3,100 2,850 1,450 2,190 12,965 (12 Franconia Notch 0 (Aerial Tramway) 4 1,000 1,000 2,000 z Merrimack River 1 50 200 250 Nursery 10 700 1,750 100 2,550 Shaker 3 400 400 Gov. Wentworth Farm 2 750 750
Totals 55 - 4,225 7,300 8,400 2,000 2,190 24,115 REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 53
Lophoclermium pincistri, a fungus disease which is generally dis tributed throughout New England, continues to be a problem in the production of red pine seedlings. Several applications of double strength Bordeaux mixture during the growing season, retard its development. However, this infection which affects only the needles, is brought about by the crowded condition of the seed beds, and while some of the needles may shed and give the tree an unbalanced ap pearance, the new growth does not become infected when the trees are separated and planted in the field. The use of Sovasol, a petroleum product, proved valuable in re tarding the growth of a large percentage of small weeds in first-year seed beds, and while few weeds were killed, frequent applications retarded their growth and saved hand labor. The value derived from the use of Sovasol appeared to vary with the kind of weeds and cli matic conditions following its application. A sectional-built five-stall garage 20 x 60 was moved from the North Haverhill CCC Camp area to the nursery upper level in the fall of 1948 and erected for the storage of trucks and miscellaneous nursery equipment. The same services and storage facilities rendered other divisions of the department in past years were continued and a portion of the nursery area was operated for the Highway Department and the pro duction of stock for their roadside beautification program.
I COUNTY FORESTRY PROGRAM
EFORE making a timber sale get in touch with your county forester. Your county forester will assist a woodland owner B in the examination of his woodlands and make recommenda tions for managing them. He will help the woodland owner or his agent in marking trees for cutting. He will explain to woodland owners the new 10 percent yield tax on wood and timber when it is cut, and how to earn the 30 percent tax abatement for practicing good forestry. The tax abatement is a reward to the owner (person who has the responsibility of cutting trees) for meeting the two major objectives of partial cutting: (1) preserve the rapidly-grow ing immature trees which will be more profitable to cut after a future growing period; (2) provide for the reseeding of desirable species. 54 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
Since the present county forestry program has been in operation, November 1, 1945-July 1, 1950, the eight county foresters have given direct assistance to 1,466 woodland owners in the better management of their woodlands. The improvements were made on an area of 20,165 acres. In addition to the direct help given woodland owners, the county foresters have assisted and advised 6,308 woodland owners and mill operators. It can be safely estimated.that of this number approxi mately 1,700 other woodland owners, in addition to the 1,466 for which we have definite records, have made or will make some changes in their cutting practices. The interest in better forest management by New Hampshire woodland owners can be gauged by the number of woodland owners indicating that they plan to ask for a tax abatement by meeting at least the minimum requirements of the forest practice standards in accordance with the provisions of the Forest Conservation and Taxa tion Law, effective April 1, 1950. During the first six-month period that the Act was in effect, 35 percent of the 1,329 intents filed re quested abatement indicating that a substantial number of operators were asking for the tax abatement. Woodland owners that have carried out the recommendations of the county foresters gradually stabilize the annual or periodic income from their woodlands. The following examples illustrate how the di- rect assistance of the county foresters has helped woodland owners. In northern New Hampshire two brothers operate’ a two-man dairy farm. The home place contains one hundred twenty-eight acres, thirty acres of which are in woodland. The woodland was not con- sidered sufficient for full-time extra help. After careful consideration and assistance from the county forester, a nearby one hundred-acre abandoned farm was purchased. The tract supported a wide variety of forest stands, lending itself to profitable spare-time or off-season employment. The cutting recommendations of the county foresters have been followed for the last three years. The total roadside value of forest products produced for a three-year period amount to $2,443.57. In addition to the profitable utilization of off-season labor and farm equipment, the woodlot has paid for itself, produced extra cash, and has furnished material for an excellent equipment storage shed and a new home for one of the brothers and his family. The areas worked over have bçen left with sufficient growing stock, and will be ready to take another cut again by the time the entire woodlot has been worked over. An elderly school teacher in the western part of the state owns a 190-acre woodlot near his home. The owner requested the county REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 55
forester to assist him in planning a timber cut which would continue to leave the land in a protected condition, as well as reserving the 7 basis for a second cut of timber in the near future. About one-third of the total area was marked for a sawlog cut, which removed about 50 percent of the merchantable volume. The owner, with the advice of the county forester, sold the marked trees at the rate of $10 per thousand board feet. The completed job resulted in a total cut of 200,000 board feet and complete satisfaction to both buyer and seller, as well as leaving the land well stocked with fast-growing merchant able trees for a second cut within a few years. At the same time the area was seeded with young pine before the final cut of merchant able timber. The New Hampshire county forestry program is a united, co operative, intensive educational program of the Forestry and Recre • ation Commission and the University of New Hampshire Agricul tural Extension Service,vith the support and backing of the U. S. Forest Service. The program is maintained by the pooling of avail able federal, state, and county funds. It is a program designed to be of direct, assistance to New Hampshire farm and other small wood land owners. Ii
REGISTERED ARBORISTS LL persons engaged in tree surgery, pruning, spraying or dusting, or other work on forest, shade and fruit trees out A side the town in which they reside are required by law to pass an examination for registration. The Commissioner of
• Agriculture, the State Entomologist and the State Forester con stitute the examining board. The following were registered during 1950: Registered Arborists 1950 (Address New Hampshire except as otherwise noted) Abbott Brothers Tree Service (W. F. Abbott), Wells, Maine. Aldrich, Leon F., 280 Bridge Street, Dedham, Mass. Amalia, Inc., (K. F. Amalia), 9 Bridge Street, Manchester, Mass. Bailey, F. H. & Sons, Inc., Box 308, Nashua. ‘Bailey, J. M., 19 Pleasant Street, Lancaster. Barber Tree Service (E. L. Barber), Peterborough. Bartlett, F. A. Tree Expert Company (W. Wheeler, Jr.), 795 Me morial Drive, Cambridge, Mass. 56 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
Bouchard, J. A., 972 Mammoth Road, Manchester. Bradford Tree Expert Company (J. W. Wholley), Epping Road, Exeter. Caron, A. F., Milford. Chaput, G. J., 34 Willow Street, Keene. Chase, E. J., 686 Court Street, Keene. Clancy, J. 0., Box 31, Amherst. Clark, L. H., Jr., Box 396, Meredith. Colprit, E. S., R. F. P. No. 1, Dover. Cook, W. M., 68 Abbott Road, Penacook. Conley & Brown, 96 Conant Street, Danvers, Mass. Cotton, E. H., Harmony Hill, Twin Mountain. Cupples, D. W., 400 Myrtle Street, Manchester. Davey Tree Expert Company, Kent, Ohio. Davis, Lillian A. Riverside Spraying Co., 145 Elliott Street, Haverhill, Mass. Dodge Associates (A. W. Dodge), Main Street, Wenham, Mass. East Coast Tree Experts (L. W. Robbins), Box 127, Hampton. Eaton, R. H., R. F. D. No. 1, Alton. Ellinwood, G. E., Hillsboro. Fellows, L. C., Box 203, New Boston. Flint, E. 0., Box 101, Harrisville. Flint, G. W., Jr., 10 Charles Street, Keene. Fournier, J. A., 102 Hall Street, Concord. Franke, W. A., 30 Cameron Street, Brookline, Mass. Franklin Tree Expert Company (C. T. Caldwell), 318 Main Street, Greenfleld, Mass. Frost & Higgins Company (J. C. White, E. W. Higgins, and R. D. Keene), 20 Miii Street, Arlington, Mass. Gray, H. C., Jr., 12 Water Street, Lancaster. Hatfield, R. G., 21 Borough Road, Concord. Henderson & Herndon Tree Company, Inc. (W. P. Henderson), 9 Story Avenue, Beverly, Mass. Hutchins, R. H., R. F. D. No. 1, Plymouth. Jenks, E. S., R. F. P. No. 1, Keene. Knox, R. T., Jr., 10 Shaker Road, Concord. Lawrence, B. F. Tree Expert Company (B. F. Lawrence), 17 Gar field Street, Greenfleld, Mass. REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 57
Locale Tree Company (J. E. Hook), 205 Cabot Street, Beverly, Mass. Lord, E. M., Woodstock, Vermont. Lucas Tree Expert Company, John (R. E. Billings), 179 Sheridan Street, Portland, Maine. Madden, J. E., 78 W. Merrimack Street, Manchester. Mayberry, E. F., Lancaster. Meader, R. W., Greenland. Melendy, H. F., Milford. Munson-Whitaker Company (J. E. Riley & R. S. O’Shea), 9 Fells- way East, Malden, Mass. Nehring, W. H., Ridge Farm Nursery, New Durham. N. E. Forestry Service, Inc. (K. S. Mochrie), 40 Central Street, Bos ton, Mass. Peeke, L. A., 67 Monroe Street, Amesbury, Mass. Philbrick, W. 5., 20 Pleasant Street, Littleton. Ralston Tree Service, Inc. (B. L. Kirby), 43 Cornwall Street, Ports mouth. Richardson, C. E., Peterborough. Rockingham Tree Service (W. Kolb), Atkinson. Rockingham Tree Service (W. H. Myers), Atkinson.
Smith, A: A., 50 Pine Street, Manchester. Stalbird, R. N., 175 Marlboro Street, Keene. Stevens Tree Company (J. H. Stevens), No. Berwick Road, Sanford, Maine. Stone, 0. P., 2 Bonnyvale Road, West Brattleboro, Vermont. Tiemey, J., 16 Liberty Street, Manchester. Tufts, R. L., 20 Lincoln Street, Stoneham, Mass. Tuttle, W. F., Wolfeboro. Walker, J. R., 31 Grant Street, Concord. Walter, S. E., Wolfeboro. Watson, D. B. (Newington), R. F. D., Portsmouth. Watson, M. S., Newington. Weichans, W. H., R. F. D. No. 1, Warner. Welsh, R. H., 23 Linden Street, Exeter. Wise, E. S., Box 248, Newport. 58 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
DISTRICT FOREST ADVISORY BOARDS
ROUPS of five citizens are appointed by the commission in each county to form a local advisory board to study forestry G problems and advise the commission on forestry matters. These were established under Chapter 235, Laws of 1941. One board represents each county, except in the cases of Belknap and Strafford Counties and Cheshire and Sullivan Counties where one board covers two counties in each case. The county foresters serve as secretaries to the respective boards. Each board holds local meetings and periodically joint meetings of the chairmen of all boards, or the entire membership, are held in Concord. In such aases Richard W. Read serves as state chairman and Thomas J. King as secretary. Two members who have rendered long and faithful service on these boards were lost by death during 1950, Mr. LaFell F. Dickinson of Keene, and Mr. Harry D. Sawyer of North Woodstock. Mr. Clif ford Stearns, Hinsdale and Mr. Sargent Goodhue, Lyme were ap pointed to fill these vacancies. District Forest Advisory Boards (As of January 1, 1950) BELKNAP-STRAFFORD: Horace U. Ransom, Meredith, Chairman Richard J. Pitman, Laconia Harold E. Flower, Barrington Richard C. Varney, Gilmanton Myron I. Jenness, Dover Robert F. Bradley, Laconia, Secretary CARROLL: Richard W. Read, Tamworth, Chairman Roger Williams, Center Tuftonboro Arthur P. Gale, Jackson Parker Merrow, Center Ossipee Howard C. Avery, Wolfeboro Theodore F. Breon, Conway, Secretary CHESHIRE-SULLIVAN: Maurice A. Mansell, Stoddard, Chairman George L. Porter, R. F. D., Alstead George H. Duncan, East Jaifrey *L. F. Dickinson, Keene Arthur A. Davis, Claremont William E. Dussault, Keene, Secretary
3
Forest
T
*Deceased ROCKINGHAM:
MERRIMACK:
HILLSBOROUGH:
GRAFTON: COOS:
*Harry
Howard
John
Lewis
Joseph
Arthur
Nelson
C. Victor
Chester Henry
Charles Lloyd
A.
Lyle
Francis
Benjamin
Merle
Henry
Wayne Clarence Lawrence
Howard
George
Clarence
HE
Improvement
bond
Taxation
and
Leland
J.
Roger
Wilbur
Robert
Robert
Robert
passage
Frazer,
E.
Recreation
S.
H.
Christie,
C.
issue
E.
D.
H.
C.
F.
W.
C.
Spaulding,
0.
M.
B.
A.
J.
Vose,
Ray,
T.
Marshall,
Webster,
Swain,
S.
Phelps,
M.
Sawyer,
Waldo,
E.
Hildreth,
Lewison,
Slayton,
Culick,
P.
McDaniel,
(Chapter
Lorden,
Bailey,
Keysar,
Platts,
E.
Bartlett,
Woodward,
W.
H.
for
Sinclair,
Herr,
Rice,
of
Monroe
Philbrook,
Sloan,
REPORT
Londonderry
Peterborough
Thompson,
and
Breck,
K.
reimbursement
Manchester
the
Exeter
Commission
FOREST
Andover
Lincoln
Fremont
Peterborough,
Phipps,
West
Hampton
North
Berlin,
Suncook
Northumberland
Bradford
Warner
Recreational
Milford
Beebe
North
Hollis
Exeter,
Act
295,
Concord,
Woodsville,
Nottingham,
OF
Milford,
Berlin
Shelburne
Canaan
Relating FORESTRY
Laws
Woodstock
Concord,
River,
Chairman
Lancaster,
TAXATION
Stratford
Secretary
Falls
in
Chairman
Secretary
of
of
several
Fund.
Chairman
Chairman
Secretary
towns
1949)
to
Chairman
DIVISION
Secretary
Forest
Secretary
ways.
It
is
involved
to
required
Conservation
be
Interest
paid
the
the
from
Forestry
on
parti
and
the
the 59 [
the the
tax
this
most
mat
make
of
recom
for
In all
to
coopera
the In
making advising
recommenda
best
close
one-third in
where
how
application
granted.
abatement.
making on
foresters
operators
cases
COMMISSION
About
in
worked
tax made
such advice
usually
so.
Many
for
county staff
is
have In
do for
the
to
RECREATION
commission
of
cuttings timber
forestry
practices.
AND
this
abatement foresters of
cut form
the
abatement.
law,
requested to
out,
of
the
for
cutting
county
tax
FORESTRY
Commission.
when
intent
the
H. taken the carried good
qualification qualify
Tax
of
N.
members
are
for
has
the
the of
consult
on this selectmen
cuttings
concerning with
60 cipation
tions cases town notifications abatement
request their mendations
tion ters REPORT OF FORESTRY DIVISION 61
FOREST RESEARCH I HIS work is carried on primarily under the Fox Trust Fund for forest research. Investigations undertaken included a wide variety of subjects. During the 1948-1949 legislative season and thereafter a large share of the research forester’s time was devoted to special statistical reports and work connected with timber taxation and the formulation of forest practice rules. Progress Report on Investigations Chemical Weeding. Preliminary tests show that small trees and brush can be killed during the dormant season by treating the basal bark area with 2-4-D and 2-4-5T, preparations contained in weed killers now widely used in agriculture and for spraying brush and poison ivy. The elimination of the necessity for cutting or girdling makes possible forest weeding at much lower cost. Chemical Bark Peeling. Peeled pulpwood is usually produced by sap-peeling felled trees during the spring and summer. Treatment of bark-girdled trees at this season with sodium arsenite results in rapid dying of the tree with the cambium in a rapidly growing stage. A small area was so treated on the Fox Forest. Due to the highly poisonous nature of sodium arsenite, tests were made to ascertain if
• other less poisonous chemicals would also be effective. Ammate, 2-4-D and 2-4-5T preparations were tested but death of trees did not
• occur during the first growing season, and it appears doubtful if these preparations will cause bark loosening. Thinning. Several permanent sample plots were remeasured that showed greatly accelerated growth over unthinned plots. Logging Damage to Reproduction. Interest in the new timber tax law with provision for tax abatement for good forestry practice, especially care of advance reproduction, haysfocused attention on how much damage normally occurs in logging. Plots laid out before cutting with all seedlings tagged were re-examined following cutting. It was found that about 1/3 of the reproduction was destroyed in selective logging, pine suffering most and hemlock least.
I FOREST PRODUCTS CUT IN 1948 AND 1949 CCORDING to reports received, production of lumber and other forest products dropped during 1948 and 1949 as compared to A the immediately preceding years. Since 1925 all sawmills and other parties cutting forest products have been required by law to file reports of their cuts during January with the State 62 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
Forester. In 1947 this law was amended to include pulpwood. These reports are kept strictly confidential, and returns are received from all known mills. Efforts are also made to receive reports from out-of- state mills receiving logs frqm New Hampshire. The decline in the annual cut can only be explained by over-pro duction earlier in the post-war period and slightly decreased demand. This decline was no doubt reversed by the sharply increased demand early in 1950 and it is expected that the 1950 cut wilL be greater than the figures reported for 1949. Large pulpwood supplies at mills and at roadside during 1948 and 1949 also contributed to a decreased pulpwood cut during those years. Beginning in the second half of 1950, pulpwood production is expected to show an upswing.
LUMBER SAWN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR 1948 AND 1949 (in Thousands of Board Feet) Calendar Year Calendar Year 1948 1949 Balsam Fir 956 1,299 Cedar 12 Hemlock 49,622 46,620 Norway Pine 1,618 1,811 Pitch Pine 1,084 4,174 White Pine 239,079 184,344 Spruce 16,942 22,807 Tamarack 20 15 Other 29 Total Softwood 308,333 261,099
Ash 1,069 433 Aspen 37 10 Basswood 234 174 Beech 3,401 1,877 Birch 16,412 15,312 Elm 78 62 Maple 6,915 5,623 Oak 7,148 5,473 Other 709 Total Hardwood 36,003 28,964 Total All Species 344,336 290,063 Number of Mills Reporting 614 598
PULPWOOD CUT (Cords) 1948 1949 Spruce and Fir 81,400 79,042 Hemlock 1,725 2,321 Hardwood 18,590 55,396 Aspen 503 62 Total 102,218 136,821 Number of Mills Reporting 13 12 7
e
•
I
Hemlock
forest
Number Hardwood
•shire.
Pine
Spruce
pJHE
Turnery
Miscellaneous Past,
Cooperage Veneer
Lath
Boxes
Excelsior
Product
Aspen
Hemlock
Hardwood
Spruce
WOOD
PULPWOOD
These
Total
and
Poles
Totals
and
Total
depletion.
Mills
IMPORTS
rounding
is
state.
and
Products
Shingles
CONSUMED
Shooks
not
and
actual
figures
Fir
Reporting
LOG
Piling
IMPORTS
identical
Some
depletion
states,
IMPORTS
AND
must
(Exclusive
REPORT
BY
Imports
of
Imports
Cut
73,817
70,870
INTO
with
EXPORTS
NEW
these
2,947
be
others
16,915
of 4,722
3,859
4,576
Locally
TO
deducted
220
700
959
OF
of
the
AND
HAMPSHIRE
standing
1948
mills
NEW
Lumber
FORESTRY
(Cords)
1948
exporting
lumber
EXPORTS
Exports
Imported
OF
66,098
61,642
report
HAMPSHIRE
6,062
4,350
2,228
1,725
(Thousand
from
784
928
and
503
sawtimber
LOGS
17,076
13,396
cut
Pulpwood) DIVISION
2,433
1,155 1948
WOOD-USING
mill
importing
37
FROM
92
logs
TO
in
Board
output
mills
MILLS
SAWMILLS
from
in Cut
NEW
M.
119,407
Imports
45,238
75,169
20,186
Feet)
New
4,967
5,165
Bd. 3,155
3,874
1,395
Locally
logs
located
649
894
INDUSTRIES
to
87
HAMPSHIRE
New
Ft.
r.
Hampshire
1949
determine
1949
from
Imported
Hamp
in
Exports
4,184
3,463
28,836
25,160
1949
6,829
5,330 399 1,293
2,321
259
sur
63
the
496
733
290
39
62
63 -y. - 14 15 95 15 of 390 300 207 985 of 296 by the 1,972 4,966 7,229 one not 6,887 1,977 1949 7,198 9,175 New 7,229 1949 9,175 total 6,829 9,575 1949 been 16,404 over in - greater exports duplica 1948 an imports. from is have number Ft. Ft. form obtain Ft. in and estimate reports, MILLS and or some Bd. over Rd. to Rd. an information be 1W. counties: M. M. receipts reduction imports Station by summary Hampshire log output may completed exports statistical reported COMMISSION contain 13 in 87 525 256 270 305 detailed This HAMPSHIRE Both data of 1948 5,102 5,161 1,277 1948 5,967 2,972 4,328 6,054 1948 4,846 11,540 New èut 10,382 11,540 10,382 17,076 two 21,922 mill SURVEY will there NEW to other to 1948. following total reported excess then Experiment survey that BY latter Hampshire exports. in RECREATION for the southern added net was added FOREST much Since a The and be Forest New for AND than be to Mills and of Hampshire. however, one decrease Exports summarizes Service, reported less shows Mills imports Report. and the should Imports New depletion H. of FORESTRY this table NATIONAL noted, were survey mills in depletion Forest Out-of-state N. over H. preparation. Reporting Northeastern be than Species total S. by by N. 1949 in EXPORTS—REPORTED figures and Biennial the Softwood U. northern Hardwood reports Exports Imports All forest available. Mills is show for Exports following by of LOG depletion should the last for the to of HE Total Total Total Total Total Total These Out-of-state Exported Exported Summarized, in It The growth cut report 64 Spruce Number Pine Hardwood forest Hampshire. Birch Oak Ash Maple Pine Beech Hemlock Spruce Logs Logs Excess tion reported proportionally mills.
rp released all the previously
r STANDING TIMBER
Sawtimber M Bd. Ft. All Wood and Timber* Commercial (International ‘/ -inch Rule) (M Standard Cords, Rough Wood) County Forest Area Softwood Hardwood Total Softwood Hardwood Total (Acres) Belknap 206,400 329,800 65,700 395,500 1,221 943 2,164 Carroll 525,400 914,400 717,600 1,632,000 3,494 5,586 9,080 Cheshire 389,700 404,600 143,100 547,700 1,820 2,661 4,481 Coos 984,200 950,000 1,383,900 2,333,900 5,327 10,482 15,809 Grafton 866,400 890,400 756,600 1,647,000 3,857 8,280 12,137 Hilisborough 442,300 448,700 81,700 530,400 2,222 2,057 4,279 Merrimack 480,200 877,600 328,700 1,206,300 3,536 3,186 6,722 Rockingham 327,200 495,500 118,900 614,400 2,204 2,043 4,247 Strafford 179,400 292,800 24,700 317,500 1,450 494 1,944 Sullivan 281,000 307,700 180,800 488,500 1,359 2,556 3,915 State 4,682,200 5,911,500 3,801,700 9,713,200 26,490 38,288 64,778 *Including 10,530 M cords of sound wood in cull trees. -I i2 -4 I
c1 66 N. H. FORESTRY AND RECREATION COMMISSION
REVISION OF LAWS 1949
Changes and additions to laws affecting the activities of the Commission directly or indirectly enacted during the 1949 session are summarized briefly as follows: CHAPTER 10 An Act Relating to the Examination of Saw Mills by the State Forester or His Authorized Agents Provides for cancellation of permits of mills operating in viola tion of fire laws by State Forester or his authorized agents. CHAPTER 11 An Act Relating to Expenses of the State Forester in Reforestation Plans Provides for cooperation with towns, counties, corporations and individuals in preparing protection, management and reforestation plans on such terms as the Commission may approve. CHAPTER 36 An Act Relative to Crossing State Lands by Public Utilities No hearing required for rights-of-way crossing state land when sole purpose is to furnish facilities to state agencies. CHAPTER 70 An Act Relating to Proclamation Prohibiting Smoking or Building Open Fires Near Woodland Amends closure of woods during high fire hazard to prohibit smoking or kindling of fires, while permitting access to woodlands. CHAPTER 82 An Act Relative to Registration of Saw Mifis Includes registration of planing mills and other wood-processing mills. CHAPTER 89 An Act Relating to Method of Payment for Forest Fire Expenses Provides for payment by town fire warden to other persons em ployed in fire-fighting. CHAPTER 93 An Act Relating to the Apportionment of Expenses for Municipalities in Fighting Forest Fires Provides for town liability for fire fighting expense to be limited to one-half of one percent of the latest equalized locally assessed valuation. IL_I . with Provides forest person 50 comply tinued shall ft. Section Makes Provides Requires Requires Forbids Provides Requires An other be of An and An An or violation. with Act at edge An for An firm Act Act Act brush officials. least State 14 Act operation Act Relating District An regulations. for for of disposal 3 felling Relative Relative Relating financing includes chains Relating 25 highway, Act Relative fires Forester registration additional An ft. Combustibles REPORT of Relative Chiefs, Act to except of of from to and to to forest trees operation. Lumber for the mills and slash to to Fire Liens Relating Penalty and CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER responsible CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER binders OF Binder fine Removal property Advances Felling within delegation Brush away until of to, fires. , 100 Emergencies within FORESTRY on of and log Care Near in ft. to Logs, $25 Chains slash, for from White Disposal of marks Registration Timber of line. of Forest 257 60 244 184 Made 126 of 151 125 124 123 for for Trees loads Saw Slash of occupied DIVISION Lumber ft. property sawdust Lumber on Mountain prevention authority each of and Mills of Fires higher Loads on and Military railroad 30-day priority Boundary building. or Storage pile of Slash lines of Pulpwood National than Saw and and and Logs; period Origin right-of-way, so of cooperation Mills 8 incinerator of control that Lines claim ft. Forest. of slash con by of 67 for
and
of
town,
Lake grow Long
goose-
duties
expenses
$16,000,
Compact
on provides state practices
the
land, buildings
Park
and
and
harvested.
establishes
State
Recreation
of
of Park. Silver
accommoda
tax
the
1950
and
Fire
defines
bare
the
Sunapee
Taxation
State
when
and
by
except
cutting Law 30,
Sunapee
share
currant as of State
and
Mt.
control,
$5,000,
and
of
Forest
sleeping
property
selectmen Brook
June
Hampshire
towns
timber the
land
town Lake
COMMISSION
fire
Blister
Brook
Improvements
Neck
Division
of
buildings
of
the
at of
for the
in
Bear Expenses New
appropriations
to
of
annual
Pine
293 Bear
conservative
295
302
305
of of Ending
306
322
Commission 323
of
Interstate
etc.,
eradication
the
Project
of
furnishing
Capital
Ragged
Conservation
the
value
for Forestry taxation
for
RECREATION
White
State
Year collection
for
on
certain
from
Forester state-owned
the
done.
to
balance facilities.
cooperation for
the
for
if
the
AND
$1,000,
or
Appropriation Operation
Forest reimbursement
on
exists
CHAPTER
be
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
Protection CHAPTER
CHAPTER of
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
exemption
timber.
an for
State to
to
for
Recreational
tax for the
Northeastern
continued
use Lake
buildings
improvements, for
Fire
to
cabins
Relative
the
reduced
the
in
provides
additional
work
foi in interstate
Commission
FORESTRY
for necessity
Appropriations
by
to
Act
Echo
be or Repairs
standing
a
of
Appropriations
of
Relating
H.
and timber,
Provides
the
Extending for
Forest
severance
appropriations
on
An time
provides
N.
Hampshire
Relative
a
1950.
that
may
Act
Term
and
Act
of
Making
act $2,000,
others,
$18,000.
for
Act
Relating transients Making
location
taxes
New
An
bushes,
to An
notification
Act
to
States
latter
The
of
Provides
An wood
Prohibits
Extends
followed. Appropriated Gate
Provided
Act
Act
construction
same.
Hollis
An
68 berry
upon
giving
ing collection The
are loss
An
Northeastern of
leased tions
for
An
Toll
in
Division S Old Northeastern Federal White Training Lookout Forest Prevention District Nursery Reforestation Administration Federal Old Training White Forest Prevention District Lookout Nursery Reforestation
Administration
and
vision
Joint
dents
Division An T Forest Added Transfer Transfer Transfer Transfer Year
Year
Act
the
Provides Provided Pine Pine
Fire Resolution
Fire
suffered
HE may Fire Emergency Emergency Fire
Stations
period Fire the of Stations Appropriation
Conferences Making
Conferences State Reserve
Reserve for of of Bills Blister Blister
Bills
all following Interstate
Supervision
Hampshire be
Commission Forestry Supervision
Fires
FORESTRY 1951. Fires
FORESTRY
appropriations, Treasurer.
to
reimbursement
Appropriations
ending in
to
found Appropriations
Rust Reimbursing Towns Rust Program Program
Towns connection
REPORT
statement in July
July
June
Division for --
FORESTRY the AND Appropriation
Appropriation DIVISION $159,599.49 1, $154,251.29
1, the
$29,622,33
CHAPTER CHAPTER
$30,213.83 30, OF 13,641.27 12,243.00 26,250.00 10,000.00 11,314.00 10,786.00 11,276.75 11,840.00 35,000.00 23,280.00
11,281.00 annual 12,949.00 12,173.00 —765.72
1949 with 1948 5,397.43 2,645.00 4,800.00
8,934.71 revenues 8,221.09 3,515.00 9,650.00 6,618.37 1,350.00
RECREATION Certain 500.00
349.00
to
for Year 765.72
FORESTRY
includes
by
1950. for -
-
certain forest
June Forestry
June
the the
DIVISION
reports
Ending
APPROPRIATIONS $ Expenditure $140,784.86 Expenditure
$148,789.86 Towns
$30,213.83
Financial
351
and 324 24,325.87 11,787.93 19,390.98 29,839.08 11,276.64 11,314.00 11,838.90
30, Expenses 31,816.11 11,217.19 23,280.00 12,938.72 12,949.00
30,
Legislature only 5,397.43 2,645.00 8,802.85 3,950.13 2,749.28 8,156.09 9,650.00 4,469.64
1,350.00 fires DIVISION
216.05 towns 1950 1949
COMMISSION
funds
of
June
for Division
appropriations
in
the Forest Bills
Bills
Reserved October,
Reserved statements
on
of
of 30, $8,123.43
$5,397.43 $ 4,250.29
1,983.15 State 3,183.89 2,148.73
$132.25
the
for the 448.87 459.00
849.87 account Payable
Payable 1951
64.81
and
Fire
State
Forestry the for
for
Comptroller
1947.
Recreation
Expenses
made in Available Available
$8,934.71
$
biennial
of $ Balance
Balance of
8,934.71
detail
acci
New
Di for
69 1’ - 1
Ii, tZ :‘i 0 4.j 0 CI] ‘-3 I -4 CII -4 0 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 Tree Distribution From State Forest Nursery Used for Forest Plan t ing in New Hampshire During Fiscal Years 1911-1950. -