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The Woodlot - includes Fisher's Miscellaneous Woodlot Examinations--part forms background for Graves and Fisher's 1903 publication on the woodlot. Copy of USDA Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 42 included

• HF-ID: HF1903-01
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Graves, H.S., Fisher, R.T.
• Associated Person: Olmsted, F.E.
• Date: 1902 to 1993
• Location: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Consulting reports. USDA Bureau of Forestry - Bulletin No. 42. 1 accordion folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches, 6.5 inches x 9 inches, 8.5 inches x 14 inches, 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches.

• Keywords: harvard forest history, land use history, silviculture
• Abstract:
  • 1. Photocopy of "The Woodlot: A Handbook For Owners Of Woodlands In Southern New England" by Henry Solon Graves and Richard Thornton Fisher.
  • 2. Carbon copies of the examination of some of the woodlots.
  • 3. Report on the progress.
  • 4. Letter from R.P. Holdsworth, Head of the Department of Forestry, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA to Hugh M. Raup, Director of the Harvard Forest March 9, 1949. He returned two copies of R.T. Fisher's 1902 reports on
  • examination of Woodlots (Mr. Thomas Shields Clark, Lenox, MA and
  • Mr. William J. Matheson, Huntington, Long Island, NY). Mr. Holdsworth mentions that the initials O.W.P. in the upper left hand corner of each report are the initials of Overton W. Price, Gifford Pinchot's trusted assistant.
  • 5. Letter (March 22, 1993 to D.R. Foster) from J. Winthrop Aldrich, NY State Department of Environmental Conservation requesting information about the Santanoni Preserve that Fisher and Bryant (Forest Management Consultants) surveyed. We did not have any additional information to send him.
  • 6. Preliminary Report on the Cooper River Timberlands of E.P. Burton and Co., Charleston, South Carolina by F.E. Olmsted.

• Related Items:
  • The Woodlot

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 1, drawer 3, HF History file
• Access: Active
• Provenance: March 9, 1949 R.P. Hodsworth, Forestry Dept., University of Massachusetts. March 22, 1993 J. Winthrop Aldrich, New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation. See Abstract.