Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Botany Department, which controls Soledad, also supervises the nearer but much larger Harvard Forest, whose 2300 acres have been under intensive management longer than any other similar tract in the United States. Here instructors and students work together under actual forest conditions at all seasons of the year. The area around Petersham, Massachusetts, where the forest is located, has varied and interesting conditions of forest cover, soil, and topography Containing a great number of trees species--the beech, birches and maples of the northern zone and the oak, hickory, and chestnut of the central zone, this is an ideal location...
...considerable part of the forest area is set aside for the demonstration of representative cases in forest history or conditions of local silviculture; and another part of over 900 acres is operated as a wild life sanctuary in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation. Like Soledad, Petersham too, suffered hurricane damage. In 1938 three-quarters of the mercantile timber in the forest was destroyed; so the next 20 years work will be confined to young or middle aged timber stands and to the improvement of ultimate production. Among the interesting discoveries which have been made at Petersham...
Chairmen of the Graduate School Drives are: Richard B. Angell, Arts and Sciences; Alfred Nordstrom, Business; Royal McClure, Design; Forest K. Davis, Divinity; William A. Penrose, Education; John G. Wilson, Engineering; John F. Martin, Law; Bradley Bigelow, Medical; H. Ralph Taylor, Public Administration; and Audrey Bill, Public Health...
Brucellosis can be stopped at its source by 1) vaccination and 2) killing infected animals. But the cost is high. At last week's Congress, delegates heard a hopeful report from a veteran fighter against the disease: Dr. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College announced a new vaccine which is effective in .curing as well as preventing brucellosis in cattle...
...found his house destroyed and his family scattered. After reassembling the remnants of his family, he asked the town authorities for a house. They gave him a slip of paper entitling him to buy an ax and showed him on a map a 100-square-yard plot in a forest near the town. "Make yourself a house," they said. The officer went back to Berlin...