Abstract
The practice of reserving from cutting strips of natural forest along recreational lakes, rivers, and highways has become accepted widely by conservationists with some opposition from forest operators. From a study of the reservations of pine left in 1943 along the shore of Basswood Lake, Quetico Park, Ontario, it is concluded that shore reservations can be effective in maintaining aesthetic values. A specific pattern in ground vegetation response and a slight improvement in stocking to pine is obtained in a strip of cutover bordering the shore reservation. Some blowdown is inevitable, but for the most part, the few pockets of heavy blowdown in shore reservations can be predicted by an evaluation of certain site characteristics. Such pockets probably should be clear-cut at the time of logging.
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