Forest Characteristics on the Vineyard

Title:: Forest Characteristics on the Vineyard
Description:: The fortuitous collection of town-based census data on the age, type, and number of forests harvested in 1885 helps interpret forest composition, abundance, and condition during a time of declining agriculture but intensive wood use for heating and industry. Left: Species harvested varied from oak and pine in the southeast and east, chestnut in the center of the state, and maple broadly. Right: Young forests dominated the coast, the Boston region, and the Connecticut Valley, with older forests in the Berkshires and base of Cape Cod.
Name on Item:: Brian R. Hall [Compiler]
Date:: August 25, 2015
Format:: Objects/Artifacts
Genre:: Book illustrations
Location:: Harvard University
Harvard Forest Archives
Collection (local):: Harvard Forest Martha's Vineyard Collection
Subjects:: Coastal
Regional Studies
Places:: Massachusetts
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/vh53xt950
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Brian R. Hall
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).