Adirondack Forest Research Articles

Romance, Recreation, and Wilderness: Influences on the Life and Work of Bob Marshall

In February of 1925 the Journal of Forestry published an article by a very young and then largely unknown forester named Bob Marshall. The piece was titled Recreational Limitations to Silviculture in the and in it Marshall made the rather heretical argument (for a forester) that not one tree in the Adirondack Forest Preserve of upstate New York should ever be harvested for lumber. Even were cutting practices permitted that did not disrupt the basic ecology of the Adirondacks, the aesthetic and inspirational values would unacceptably be destroyed, Marshall said. The Adirondacks, because of their beauty, ruggedness, and close proximity to a huge urban population, were uniquely suited to non-commodity uses. They were most valuable to human health and happiness if large sections were preserved for recreation and inspiration. And the need for such places was only going to increase:

Nematode populations in Adirondack forest soils and their potentialrole in sulfur cycling

Nematode populations in Adirondack forest soils and their potentialrole in sulfur cycling

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia. Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences. Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived. Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society. Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky. Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply. Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography. Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration. Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience. Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales. Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World. Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures. Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980. David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective. Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization. David Harvey. Reviving Main Street. Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation. John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State. Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology. J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England. R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society. Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development. Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private. Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities. Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems. John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities. Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning. Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts. Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management. Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography. Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography. Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape. Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation. Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland. D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries. R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists. Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything. George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils. K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain. Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America. Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows. Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change. A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life. Yi-Fu Tuan.

Transformations of Organic and Inorganic Sulfur: Importance to Sulfate Flux in an Adirondack Forest Soil

Sulfate flux from forest soils as a result of inputs from acidic deposition is thought to be a critical process in regulating acidification of surface waters. The purpose of this study was to evaluate biotic transformations of sulfur in an Adirondack Mountain forest soil by adding 35S-sulfate to the forest floor. In September 1983 to each of two 0.5 m2 plots, 2.22 × 1010 dpm of 35S-sulfate was added in 4 liters of solution. Analysis of soil horizons from the plot at the end of the six week incubation indicated that 70 and 99 percent of the added 35S was retained in the soil at plots 1 and 2, respectively. More than 70 percent of the 35S was found in Oa, Bh, and Bs1 horizons. In O horizons greater than 80 percent of the 3sS was found as organic sulfur, whereas in mineral horizons most was found as adsorbed sulfate. These findings indicated that a portion of the sulfate moving through the soil is both rapidly immobilized in the forest floor and adsorbed in the mineral horizons. On a net basis, however, the soil is not accumulating sulfur so that mineralization and desorption must equal immobilization and adsorption.

Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve

Journal Article Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve. By Philip G. Terrie. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985. ix + 209 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $24.95.) Get access Michael P. Cohen Michael P. Cohen Southern Utah State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 933–934, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908903 Published: 01 March 1986

A Century Wild: Essays Commemorating the Centennial of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Edited by Neal S. Burdick

<i>A Century Wild: Essays Commemorating the Centennial of the Adirondack Forest Preserve</i>. Edited by Neal S. Burdick

Review: Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve, by Philip G. Terrie

Book Review| January 01 1986 Review: Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve, by Philip G. Terrie Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest PreservePhilip G. Terrie John A. Douglass John A. Douglass Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1986) 8 (1): 95–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377086 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation John A. Douglass; Review: Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve, by Philip G. Terrie. The Public Historian 1 January 1986; 8 (1): 95–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3377086 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1986 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Atmospheric Deposition and Ionic Input in Adirondack Forests

Major mechanisms for input of ions to forest ecosystems in the central Adirondack Mountains of New York State were studied. Precipitation and throughfall in adjacent northern hardwood and lake margin coniferous forests were continuously sampled from May 2, 1979 to May 7, 1980. Important mechanisms for transport of ions from atmosphere to forest floor were identified using regression analyses and the assumption that deciduous and coniferous forests capture particulates and aerosols with differing efficiencies. Sodium was delivered in precipitation and dry-fall and interacted little with the forest canopies. Hydrogen, potassium, and magnesium were also deposited primarily by bulk precipitation but hydrogen was retained by foliage while additional quantities of potassium and magnesium were leached from tree canopies. Impaction of suspended particulates and/or aerosols on forest vegetation was an important source of additional sulfate and nitrate, and these ions contributed to the leaching of calcium from foliage.

The Adirondack Forest Preserve: A Chronology. By Norman J. VanValkenburgh Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and Nature. By Jane Eblen Keller Protecting Open Space: Land Use Control in the Adirondack Park. By Richard A. Liroff and G. Gordon Davis, with a chapter by L. Frank Lyman

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews By Norman J. VanValkenburgh By Jane Eblen Keller The Adirondack Forest Preserve: A Chronology. By Norman J. VanValkenburgh Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and Nature. By Jane Eblen Keller Protecting Open Space: Land Use Control in the Adirondack Park. By Richard A. Liroff and G. Gordon Davis, with a chapter by L. Frank LymanPhilip G. TerriePhilip G. Terrie Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 26, Number 4October 1982 Published for the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/4004685 Journal History This article was published in the Journal of Forest History (1974-1989), which was continued by Forest & Conservation History (1990-1995). © 1982 Forest History Society, Inc. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Acid Precipitation and Ionic Movements in Adirondack Forest Soils1

To examine potential effects of acid precipitation on forest soils in a hardwood and in a coniferous stand in the central Adirondacks of New York State, solution chemistry was studied in five strata of these ecosystems. Bulk precipitation, throughfall, and soil leachates were sampled and analyzed for pH, NO/sub 3/, SO/sub 4/, K, Ca, Mg, and Na. A subset of the samples were analyzed for Al. Organic anion concentrations were estimated from ionic charge balances. Concentrations of NO/sub 3/, H, and K in B horizon leachates were not significantly different than precipitation concentrations, while concentrations of SO/sub 4/, Ca, Mg, and Na in water leaving the sola were significantly greater than precipitation concentrations. Patterns of movement for most ions were similar for both study sites, but concentrations were generally greater in the conifer system. Cation leaching from the hardwood site appears about equally influenced by SO/sub 4/ and organic anion leaching. Sulfate and organic anion concentrations were greater in the conifer site but organic anion leaching dominated. Sulfate appears highly mobile in these soils. Chronic leaching by H/sub 2/SO/sub 4/ combined with internally generated organic acids may represent a threat to the nutrient status of many Adirondack forest soils.

Controlling Deer Use of Forest Vegetation with Electric Fences

In 1961, an electric fence to control deer (Odocodus virginusnus) was erected around a 255-acre part of a 5Bacre stand of cut-over northern hardwood forest in the Adirondack Mountains. In addition to the main fence, a Sacre area was enclosed with an outrigger fence, as recommended by the Vermont Fish and Game Department, to test its effectiveness compared to the main fence. Observations of the outrigger fence indicated that it effectively repelled deer during early winter but was ineffective after 6 inches of snow had accumulated. High resistance to ground in dry snow was mea^ sured and the fence was modified by adding wires at ground potential. The main fence was modified in 1962 to include ground wires, and in 1963 to replace solid copper wire with copper-clad steel wire. Track counts and direct observaffons indicated that the electric fence effectively repelled many deer although numerous observations of deer penetrating the fence were made. Vegetative tallies indicated that deer browsing was significantly ( P < 0.0S ) reduced inside the fence. Cost per acre over the study period was $22.47. The efficiency of the electric fence in controlling deer use was considered too marginal to recommend its use as a management tool, and its cost was relaffvely too high. The effect of the white-tailed deer on Adirondack forest vegetation has been studied on The Archer and Anna Huntington Wildlife Forest Station since 1939. These early exclosure studies concluded that deer are not an important limiting factor in the establishment of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants in the uncut mature northern hardwood forest ( Webb et al. 1956 ) . Later studies on logged northern hardwood stands indicated a dramatic effect of deer on the height growth of most indigenous hardwoods, except American beech ( Fagus grandifolia), (Tierson et al. 1966, Farnsworth and Barrett 1966 ) . The desirability of reducing deer use to permit adequate stocking and growth of preferred timber species was clearly evident. Unpublished studies on the Huntington Wildlife Forest have also demonstrated that browsing by the extant deer population has changed the northern hardwood forest un1 A contribution of New York Pittman-Robertson Project W-105-R, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the New York State Conservation Department, and the State University College of Forestry, Syracuse University, cooperating. 922 derstory to one comprised largely of beech, a species little used by the white-tail and not highly regarded by the forester. Fencing to control deer browsing on large areas of forest land has had little application. Electric fencing techniques have been used even less. Seamans ( 1951 ) used electric fencing to control deer damage, primarily to orchards, in Vermont. In 1960, a study was instituted on the Huntington Wildlife Forest to test the effectiveness of electric fences in controlling deer use on a large forested area under timber management. Thanks are due E. F. Patric and R. A. Seamans for their assistance. D. F. Behrend reviewed the manuscript.

Summer Flight Behavior of White-Tailed Deer in Two Adirondack Forests

The summer flight behavior of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was studied on two areas-one hunted and one unhunted-in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. Flight distance, gait, tail position, and blowing were observed along forest roads and around one lakeshore. Flight distances for antlered deer, exclusive of spikehorns, were significantly (P 0.05) longer on the hunted area. Both antlered and antlerless deer ran and held their tails up in flight more often along the roadsides than around the lake, perhaps indicating greater sensitivity to approach in vehicle than to approach in canoe. The influence of hunting on flight behavior and observability of deer is discussed.

Politics in the Wilderness: New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve

Politics in the Wilderness: New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve

Politics in the Wilderness: New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve

Politics in the Wilderness: New York's Adirondack Forest Preserve

The Edge Effect of the Lesser Vegetation of Certain Adirondack Forest Types with Particular Reference to Deer and Grouse F. B. Barick

The Edge Effect of the Lesser Vegetation of Certain Adirondack Forest Types with Particular Reference to Deer and Grouse F. B. Barick

The Effect of the Lesser Vegetation of Certain Adirondack Forest Types with Particular Reference to Deer and Grouse

The Effect of the Lesser Vegetation of Certain Adirondack Forest Types with Particular Reference to Deer and Grouse

Moraines of the St. Lawrence Valley

Two marginal moraines, the Albion and the Oswego, lying near Lake Ontario and belonging to the recessional series of western New York, were traced with substantial continuity from previously determined points near Rochester to the vicinity of Watertown, and to points farther northeast, where they were lost in the Adirondack forest. Four later moraines of the same series, passing near Watertown, Philadelphia, Gouverneur, and Dekalb, respectively, were followed with some few breaks from the region of Watertown northeast toward the Champlain-St. Lawrence watershed, which passes close to the village of Churubusco. Three of them were followed across the divide and southward along the Lake Champlain slope to the hills northwest of Plattsburg. Part of a still later moraine was found on the Champlain slope. These moraines mark successive re-advance positions of the ice front as it retreated from the basin of Lake Ontario and down the St. Lawrence Valley. They cover the entire duration of Glacial Lake Iroquois and...

Silloway on Summer Birds of the Adirondack Forest Summer Birds of the Adirondack Forest Silloway

Silloway on Summer Birds of the Adirondack Forest Summer Birds of the Adirondack Forest Silloway

The Adirondack Forests

The Adirondack Forests