R.T. Fisher Correspondence: US 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, Richard T.
- Forbes, Reginald D.
- Greeley, William B.
- Johnson, Benjamin N.
- Kittredge, Joseph, Jr.
- Murphy, Louis S.
- Shepard, Ward
- Stuart, Robert Y.
- Wallace, Henry C.
- Winslow, Carlile P.
- Wolff, Meyer H.
- Associated Person:
- Bailey, Irving W.
- Cary, Austin
- Clapp, Earle H.
- Cline, Albert C.
- Dana, Samuel T.
- Foster, Clifford H.
- Gast, P. Rupert
- 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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