Word: forested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor R. T. Fisher, of the Division of Forestry, spoke on. "The Management of the Harvard Forest" last evening. In demonstrating the principles of technical forestry, the aim of study at the Forest is a sustained yield of a given amount of timber from a given area. The two problems encountered in effecting this regularity of yield are, first, how to replace trees cut and, second, how to improve the immature stand. Various methods are used to replace cut trees, including the group, strip, and thinning systems of cutting and also artificial planting. Care in lumbering, and thinning...
Professor R. T. Fisher '98, of the Forestry School, will lecture on "The Management of the Harvard Forest" in the Lecture Room of Robinson Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be illustrated by slides showing the operations at the Forest from planting and nursery work to lumbering and sawing. It will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Forestry Club, and will be open to the public...
...Harvard Forest, forming the most important part of the equipment of the Division of Forestry, was acquired in the autumn of 1907 through the generosity of J. S. Ames '01, who gave the money necessary for its purchase and an additional sum for the repair and outfitting of the buildings. It is situated at Peter sham, Mass., in hilly country, and contains about 2000 acres of heavily wooded land...
...McKinlock, of Lake Forest, Ill., left halfback, prepared at St. Mark's, where he played for three years, and was captain. He is 19 years old, 5 feet 8 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 169 pounds...
Friedman, H. E., 188 Forest St., Medford...