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Evaluation of 1938 hurricane damage and merchantable timber on the Choate and Fisher estates

• HF-ID: HF1938-08
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Cline, Albert C.

• Associated Person:
  • Gordon, Alexander
  • Hall, John L.
  • MacAloney, H. J.
  • Niederhof, Camman
  • Rowlands, Willett
  • Spencer, Josephine
  • Spykman, Elizabeth

• Date: 1938
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Tables, notes, maps, correspondence. 1 accordion folder.

• Keywords: disturbance, hurricane damage, off forest
• Abstract:
  • Harvard Forest Assistant Director, A. C. Cline, correspondenced with sisters Josephine Spykeman and Josephine Perkins regarding their property (Choate Estate and Connor Pond) which was affected by the 1938 hurricane.
  
  
  • C. H. Niederhof evaluated Georgina P. Fisher's Franklin Lot and classified the damage caused by the 1938 hurricane. The file includes a description and summary of forest conditions on the Franklin Lot in March 1930 and corresponding map.

• Related Items:
  • A.C. Cline Correspondence: Spencer, J. and Spykman, E.
  • Map: Choate Estate Maps showing forest types and 1938 hurricane damage- NE, NW, S blocks. 1938-1939
  • Map: Choate Estate Maps showing forest types and hurricane damage - NE, S blocks. 1938-1939

• Archives Location: Middle Room
• Access: Active