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Hugh M. Raup, Charles Bullard professor of forestry and director of the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., said that the project would not seriously affect the experiments now under way at Black Rock. "They'll take part of our and," Raup said, "but not very much. They've been discussing it for some time," Preservation Conference, a conservationist Raup added. The Scenic Hudson Pre-group, had been fighting the construction of the project. The Conference stated yesterday in New York that the decision must be reversed, and indicated that it would take action...
Hugh M. Raup, director of the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., said yesterday that the trees along the Charles are "certainly not the typical American sycamore, which is found in the Midwestern United States but which is uncommon in the East." He said they were probably specimens of the "London plane tree, which has been widely planted in the East as a boulevard tree...
...Black Forest and the 2700-acre Harvard Forest in Petersham were both given to the University by the late Dr. Ernest G. Stillman '08, who also gave the IAB. The forests are used by candidates in Harvard's small Master of Forest Science program...
...does have numerous holdings throughout the United States and the world. The University extends far beyond the banks of the Charles, or the Medical School in Boston, or the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. In Massachusetts the University also owns the Harvard Forest and Black Rock Forest (6000 acres) in Petersham, the Bussey Institute for agriculture and horticulture is Jamacia Plain, the George R. Agassis Station in Harvard, Mass, (part of the Astronomical Observatory system), and the Blue Hill Meterological Observatory...
Yonkers said that the fire was still dangerous to the town of Petersham until it should rain. He added that there had been no precipitation for two weeks and that "Everybody is praying for rain." Yonkers called Tuesday's holocaust "the biggest fire in the history of Petersham and the Harvard Forest." Petersham has a population of 850 and is surrounded by woods...