Woodlot Examinations and The Woodlot
- HF-ID: HF1903-01
- Category: Research Files
- Creator:
- Graves, Henry S.
- Fisher, Richard T.
- Associated Person:
- Date: 1902 to 1993
- Location: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Reports, photocopy of USDA Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 42 (The Woodlot). 1 accordion folder.
- Keywords: harvard forest history, land use history, silviculture
- Abstract:
- Photocopy of "The Woodlot: A Handbook For Owners Of Woodlands In Southern New England" by Henry Solon Graves and Richard Thornton Fisher.
- Carbon copies of the examination by R. T. Fisher of woodlots of: W. B. Lindsay (Swan's Island, ME), The Sharon Sanitorium (Sharon, MA), The Sharon Biological Observatory (Sharon, MA), The Tatnuck Club (Worcester, MA), William James (Chocorua, NH), Mrs. Thomas McKittrick (Dublin, NH) [missing 1 page], William Salter (Madison, Carroll County, NH), The Villard Estate (Dobbs Ferry, NY), Daniel P. Morse (Northport, NY),
- New England woodlot work: Brief report of progress -- In response to applications from owners of woodlands in New England and Southern New York, 51 examinations of woodlots and timber tracts have been undertaken, 18 during the field season of 1902, and 33 during that of 1903.
- Preliminary report on the Cooper River Timberlands of E. P. Burton and Co., Charleston, South Carolina (by F. E. Olmsted).
- Two 1902 reports by R. T. Fisher found in an old file and sent from R. P. Holdsworth of the University of Massachusetts Forestry Department to H. M. Raup. He also notes that the initials in the upper left corner of each report are those of Gifford Pinchot's assistant, Overton W. Price: Report on an examination of the timberland of Mr. Thomas Shields Clark, Lenox, Massachusetts; Report on an examination of the Woodlot of Mr. William J. Matheson, Huntington, Long Island.
- Inquiry from J. Winthrop Aldrich to David Foster with a photocopy of the Fisher and Bryant report of the timber survey of the Santanoni Preserve at Newcomb, NY for Robert C. Pruyn. [No map or additional materials located in 1993.]
- Related Items:
- Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 1, drawer 3, HF History file
- Access: Active
- Provenance: March 1949: 2 copies of R. T. Fisher reports sent to H. M. Raup from R. P. Holdsworth.
- Administrative Notes:
- Former title: 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