The Caribbean Forester, Vol. 14

Download or read book The Caribbean Forester, Vol. 14 written by United States Forest Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Caribbean Forester, Vol. 14: January-April 1953 The year 1952 was marked by a more wide-spread application of the findings of research than ever before. For the first time in about 10 years large scale planting on the public forests was recommended. Prior to that period, about acres of public forest lands were planted, but large scale planting was then discontinued because of numerous failures and high costs. This period has been marked by observation of past plantings and cautious testing of new species, techniques, and sites. Even now only a very limited number of practices can be recommended safely. A result of these recommendations this year has been the underplanting with West Indian mahogany of more than acres of dry forest on the south coast and the underplanting of broadleaf mahogany on 450 acres of secondary rain forest. An additional several thousand acres of similar sites are to be underplanted as soon as funds permit. Another significant development has been the demand which has appeared for eucalyptus for underground piling. The first 30 feet of 12 trees (14 years old) is worth on the stump. This development and other prospects for use of this tree for its cellulose have removed the last reason to hesitate in large scale planting of eucalyptus at elevations between and feet. Areas of natural secondary forest among existing plantations are to be converted to eucalyptus. The planting of eucalyptus by the taungya system is to be throughly' investigated during the coming year. If successful it may lead to consider ably increased interest in tree planting on private lands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.