Bernhard E. Fernow Marker

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Near Tupper Lake in Franklin County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Bernhard E. Fernow

This Forest Plantation and Trail... Marker Photo, Click for full size

By Peter Linehan, August 10, 2006

1. This Forest Plantation and Trail... Marker

Inscription. This Forest Plantation and Trail dedicated to Bernhard E. Fernow, 1851-1923.

“I have been unusually lucky to see the results of my work. I have been a plowman who hardly expected to see the crop greening, yet fate has been good to me in letting me catch at least a glimpse of the ripening harvest.”

Erected by the New York Society of American Foresters.

Location. 44° 15.121′ N, 74° 20.802′ W. Marker is near Tupper Lake, New York, in Franklin County. Marker can be reached from New York Route 30. Click for map. The marker is in a 68 acre tract along a self-guided nature trail in Fernow Forest in the Adirondacks. Marker is in this post office area: Tupper Lake NY 12986, United States of America.

Regarding Bernhard E. Fernow. Fernow was a German-born forester who helped establish the practice of forestry in the United States. In 1898 he was appointed the director of a new forestry school at Cornell University. Later he began experiments in the clearcutting method of timber harvesting at this site. In the resulting controversy with the neighbors, the school lost funding from the state of New York in 1903. Fernow went on to teach at the University of Toronto. His methods, inspired by practice in Germany, were later vindicated.

Boulder with marker. Photo, Click for full size

By Peter Linehan, August 10, 2006

2. Boulder with marker.

Also see . . .
1. Fernow Forest Website. (Submitted on May 29, 2007.)
2. Bernhard E. Fernow, Third Chief Division of Forestry. A condensed biography on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service website. (Submitted on May 29, 2007.)