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Hurricane timber salvage accounting

• HF-ID: HF1939-20
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Cline, Albert C.

• Date: 1939
• Location: Harvard Forest, Petersham MA
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Tables and statements. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: harvard forest history, petersham history, hurricane damage, lumbering, forest economics
• Abstract:
  • Statements from January 1939 to May 1939 document expenses to be paid through the Harvard Forest Rehabilitation Fund and payments received for sale of logs from hurricane-felled pine and hardwood logs.
  
  
  • This file also includes a table of damage caused by the hurricane to Tom Swamp, Slab City, and Prospect Hill blocks according to age and composition of the stands and the degree of damage; a table of volume, price and percentage distribution by species and log grades of all logs sold to the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration ending September 30, 1939; and an account of hurricane-felled timber in Petersham bought to date (October 16, 1939) by Federal Government.

• Archives Location: Middle Room, 1938 Hurricane file
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Former title: Hurricane-Felled Timber in Petersham Bought to Date by Federal Government as of 10-16-39.