Word: forested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...
...tribute to the smooth functioning of the University's administration that the Harvard Forest at Petersham, typical of the little-known parts of Harvard, has been placed before the public eye as a result of the recent hurricane, and has stood the test of public opinion with success. Both the fact that the University maintains the oldest experimental forest tract in America, and the fact that men like Ward Shepard '10 comprise its staff, cannot help but bring forth creditable comment from the public...
First the average newspaper reader is informed that Harvard owns 2300 acre tract of Woodland solely for the purpose of advancing knowledge of forestry and allied subjects; second, the layman may observe that Mr. Shepard, director of the Forest, an obscure unit dealing with what is almost a neglected science, has been the man the State has asked to step in and lead a committee to check possible conflagration in mid-state...
Shepard was more concerned with the immediate danger of fire to life and property than with the destruction of his job and the thirty years of painstaking work that have gone into the making of the Forest...
...position to say whether this marks the end of the Harvard Forest or whether it can go on," he said. Years of experiments in conservation and efficient timber operation were wiped out at a stroke, and even if there is enough standing to warrant starting again, the cost of clearing the Forest would be around a prohibitive...