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Series
General technical report NRS volume 101
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Forest restoration would be greatly helped by understanding just what forests looked like a century or more ago. One source of information on early forests is found in old deeds or surveys, where boundary corners were described by noting nearby trees known as witness trees. This paper describes the creation and analysis of a database of witness trees from original metes and bounds surveys of what became the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia....