R.T. Fisher Correspondence: USDA Forest Service
- HF-ID: HFCor-1094
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator: Ames, Fred, Bates, Carlos G., Behre, C. Edward, de Sousa Canavarro, Georges, Evans, R.M., Fisher, R.T., Forbes, Reginald D., Greeley, William B., Johnson, Benjamin N., Kittredge, Joseph, Jr., Murphy, Louis S., Shepard, W., Stuart, Robert Y., Wallace, Henry, Winslow, Carlile P., Wolff, Meyer H.
- Associated Person: Bailey, Irving W., Cary, Austin, Clapp, Earl H., Cline, A.C., Dana, Samuel T., Foster, Clifford H., Gast, P.R., Gilbert, Arthur W., Hayes, Ralph W., Howard, M.S., Schreeder, Foster, Shepard, Harold B., Spaeth, J. Nelson, Sparhawk, William N., Staebner, Ralph C., Tarbox, Errol E., Tryon, Henry H.
- Date: 1909-1934
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Letters from R.T. Fisher are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.
- Abstract:
- Bulletin mailing list; request of books; looking for man with qualifications for a job; request for Harvard Forest bulletins; determining the cubic contents of trees, xylometric method; economic study of pulp industry; research issues and solutions; New Haven Conference of Forest Schools; problems of forest conservation; advisability of determining the minimum silvicultural and protection requirements to keep forests reproducing; person for director, bulletin no. 2 and bulletin no. 3; requirements study; minimum requirements for Forest Management; meeting at Plymouth; forest taxation situation; slash burning; Report on Research in Schools of Forestry; standardizing forest sites; maps to help with planning and controlling logging operations; Ritter and Little River Lumber Companies; amount of growing stock necessary to maintain required yield; ratio between forest capital and yield; Invitation to A.W. Gilbert to be on special committee on Forest Products; Experiment Stations; possibility of employing Tarbox in experimental station; Praise of P.R. Gast and A.C. Cline; L.S. Murphy describes edits of M.S. Howard memorandum to Howard; R.W. Hayes looking for employment; National Conference on Utilization of Forest Products; R.T. Fisher asked to give speed at conference; thanks for visit to Petersham from R.M. Evans and M.H. Wolff; forest Weeding"; improvements in connection with small sawmill operations; Allegheny Station, white pine operators; replanting 10,000 trees; F. Ames' answers to R.T. Fisher's questionnaire; general rules of forest practice
- Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 3
- Access: Restricted
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