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Course notes and field notebooks

• HF-ID: HF1901-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Fisher, Richard T.

• Date: 1899 to 1914
• Location: California, Cambridge MA, Harvard Forest
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Course notes, field notebooks. 1 accordion folder.

• Keywords: pathology, silviculture, education and policy, lumbering
• Abstract:
  • 4 USDA Division of Forestry Notebooks:
  • 1. 1899 Notes on the Redwoods, Humboldt County, California
  • September 15, 1899 to October 4, 1899.
  • 1905 Fay Lot, Lawrence Lot, Fay Lot Sections 26 - 52.
  • 2. No year stated in this notebook. Redwoods:
  • General distribution, geography, topography, climate, soil
  • and elevation of belt. Silvicultural - forest types. Demands
  • upon light. Demand upon moisture of soil and atmosphere.
  • Dangers - wind fire, insects, fungi. General information
  • about mills, logging, costs, market. List of supplies and
  • food.
  • 3. 1901 Notes supplied from last book - Sisson to Hay Fork - July 10
  • to September 18, 1901. Notes on Fires. Notes on Large Game.
  • 4. Consulting Woodlot Examinations October 28, 1902 to December 22, 1902.
  • See also HF 1903-01.
  • 8 Course Notebooks:
  • 1. English 15. Scott's Poems. Record of Report, Forestry 1 (list of students
  • and grades).
  • 2. Diseases of trees (Dr. Sturgis).
  • 3. Forest Management (1901).
  • 4. Forest Technology (1901).
  • 5. Insects (January to March - no year given).
  • 6. Roads (January to March - no year given).
  • 7. Silviculture (October 1901 to February 1902), Photocopy of these notes.
  • 8. Miscellaneous - Board Accounts (Fall 1914). Exam of Cummingham Lot and
  • Sargent Lot. Yard costs.

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 1, drawer 3, HF History file
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