Excerpt from Kane Experimental Forest: Ensuring the Future of the Forests Kane Experimental Forest (kef), were originally part of the Allegheny National Forest. On March 23, 1932, the land was formally dedicated to research use for the Allegheny Forest Experiment Station (now the Northeastern Research Station). The kef was established to promote the study of the unglaciated portion of the beech-birch-maple hemlock forest type that made up such a large part of the Station's territory. Today, the Experimental Forest serves as the field laboratory for the re search project Understanding and Managing Forest Ecosystems of the Allegheny Plateau Region, which is headquartered at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Irvine, Pennsylvania. The headquarters of the Kane Experimental Forest provide offices for Experimental Forest personnel, a conference building for meetings and training sessions, and temporary quarters for visiting scientists and students working on the forest. The office facilities are open year-round, while living accommodations are generally available May through October. The residential facilities provide rustic accommodations for college classes for a field trip, or longer term quarters for up to five residents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.