Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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THE 1-HLLTOP 1934. It was under his able leadership that the Harvard Forest has been so well developed. George O. Gale, '57 - rf- f f' THE 3-IAKVAKD FOIQ-'lef MODf.L:, we of Harvard University, several forest models have Q For the event of the tercentenary celebration HJ been built. The complete series consists of if twenty-two miniature landscapes which will be Q placed, it is hoped, in the museum at the Harvard Q Fbrest. These exact scale models show, in the 3 first set, the stages of forest growth from the ,gs time of colonization to the present, and, in the iii second, methods of treating forestsxto produce the rm, best results. ,Kg fi: 1 lf 4 W v The first seven models, which comprise the f' historical series, are identical in setting but 51, show widely differing conditions. The titles will V we reveal to some extent the features of the models. EEE They are as follows: Q17 the primeval forest, PH . C21 the forest being cleared, C31 the period of V1 greatest cultivation, 141 the reverting to forest, i f 455 the resulting fereet being logged, qey the ik. out-over land five years later, and Q75 the cut- 'gk over land at a still later date. , , ggi 57. 3795 The models are approximately four by five ggfgg feet. Over a framework of wood, which follows 3 vii the main topographical features of the finished A ifg model, wire screening is stretched as a base for the plastic surfacing compound. Wherever there 7 4 is to be a human figure, a vertical wire is used as its baseg The trees, carefully reproduced fro , 'WQQQ scale drawings, are constructed from copper wire .H W5'07't' -' Each leaf or needle is a separate piece of copp n.f1 0 ,mfs It X'- When all these units are wound together, they f . ' siiggg-' the branches which are soldered to the trunk. A clearer picture of the models maybe i ed, perhaps, by a description of one of them. is the third model of the hi , showing 5 as i