Library Record
Title | Map of the Adirondack plateau showing the position & condition of existing forests. / Prepared under the direction of C.S. Sargent, chairman. Field notes: J.S. Brandegee & H.B. Ayres. Compilation: A. Robeson. |
Author |
New York (State). Forest Commission. |
Author added entry |
Ayres, H. B. (Horace Beemer), 1856- Brandegee, J. S. Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927. Robeson, A. |
Digital File | View high-resolution map image on New York Heritage database. |
Published Date | 1884 |
Object Name | Map |
Control Number | 2018.011.0451 |
Call Number | Map 0451 |
Place of Publication | [New York:] |
Publisher | Julius Bien & Co. Photo Lith, |
Physical Description | color print, encased in mylar, 29 x 32 inches |
Summary | Map of Adirondack Mountain region with state lands, virgin forests, burned regions, and harvestable forest indicated by color coding. |
Search Terms |
Adirondack Forest Preserve (N.Y.) New York (State). Forest Commission. Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.) Forests and forestry--History. Julius Bien & Co., printers. |
Imagefile | 181\20180110451.JPG |
Notes |
Accompanied the New York State Forestry Commission Report ... transmitted to the Legislature, January 23, 1885 (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1885). Sargent Committee Report. AND New York State Forest Commission. First Annual Report... for the Year 1885 (Albany, New York: The Argus Company, printers, 1886). See Adirondack Bibliography 1400. Charles Sprague Sargent served as chairman of a commission established in 1884 "to investigate and report on a system of forest preservation" (New York State, Chapter 551, Laws of 1884). The commission became known as the "Sargent Commission," a precursor to the New York State Forest Commission created in 1885. Sargent Commission Report was reviewed in Indian Forester; a Monthly of Magazine of Forestry, Agriculture, Shikar & Travel, January 1886, Volume XII, edited by W.R. Fisher, Director, Forest School, Dehra Dun (or Dehradun), India: "REPORT OF THE FORESTRY COMMISSION OF THE NEW YORK STATE. Mr. A. C. Chapin, the Comptroller of the New York State, last July appointed a Commission, consisting of Professor Sargent of the Harvard University and three other gentlemen, to report on a system of forestry for the State forests, and this report has just been presented to the State Legislature. It consists of an octavo pamphlet of 57 pages, illustrated by a very good map of the Adirondack plateau, on a scale of 4 miles to the inch, and by a series of photographs, which in the words of the report show 'better than any words can describe, the condition to which excessive forest devastation has already reduced large areas within the watersheds of the principal streams of the State.' The map is colored to show the virgin forest, forest from which marketable timber has been removed, denuded regions, farms, and State lands." See also maps 2018.011.0426 and 2018.011.0452. |
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Collection | General Map Collection |