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of the National Guard of Hawaii. and two cowboys, and 

 during the short stay of two days our bag was 286 goats 

 and 2 sheep. The island has already begun to show im- 

 provement on account of the reduction of stock, by the in- 

 creased growth of native grasses and weeds, and the alga- 

 roba, Prosopis juliflora, or mesquite of the Soutliwest, 

 which has been spread by the few work horses which have 

 been allowed to graze on the island, is coming up abun- 

 dantly on at least 18,000 acres along the lower elevations 

 and promises soon to become an extensive forest valuable 

 for the production of wood for fuel, beans for stock feed, 

 and blossoms for bee pasturage. 



TOUR OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS AND PARKS 



A COMBINATION of recreational and educational 

 features is the plan for a tour of the National Forests 

 and National Parks proposed by the Massachu- 

 setts Forestry Association for the coming summer. The 

 Association proposes to give its members and others who 

 were interested in conservation and the development of 

 the National Forests and Parks an opportunity of seeing 

 at first hand, under the most favorable circumstances, 

 what has been done with these great areas and to learn 

 what the plans for the future are concerning them. 



The Association is deeply indebted to the officers of 

 the United States Forest Service and those of the National 

 Parks Ser\'ice for their cooperation in the preparation of 

 the plans for this tour. Through their advice and kindly 

 assistance, those who are fortunate enough to make this 

 tour will have at their service in many of the parks and 

 forests the men who are most familiar with those areas 

 and who are charged with the development of them. 



On Thursday, June 28, the party will leave Boston, 

 arriving in Denver the following Sunday morning, there 

 to visit Rocky Mountain Park, Pike's Peak, and to inspect 

 the reforestation work of the Forest Service in the Pike 

 National Forest. 



Six days will be spent in Yellowstone Park and six 

 more in Glacier National Park. From the Glacier Na- 

 tional Park the party will journey to Lake Chelan in the 

 Chelan National Forest, there to be guided by a repre- 

 sentative of the United States Forest Service. 



The party will have two days for rest at Seattle and 

 an afternoon sail through Puget Sound to Tacoma will 

 be made on the way to Rainier National Park and Forest 

 and then on to Portland. From there the party will 

 take an all-day journey over the beautiful Columbia 

 highway to the Eagle Creek Camp which is one of the 

 best examples of the recreational facilities furnished by 

 the National Forest Ser\-ice. The next day another auto 

 ride takes the party among the foothills of Mount Hood 

 to the Forest Nursery of the Wind River Valley where 

 over 5,000,000 young trees are growing. On this trip will 

 be seen the scientific logging methods used on a timber 

 sale area of the National Forest. Crater Lake National 

 Park and Forest will l)c the next destination. 



After the trip to Crater Lake three days will be spent 

 in San Francisco in rest and sight-seeing. A conference 

 on the various aspects of the conservation problem will 

 be held with the representative interests of the Pacific 

 Coast. From San Francisco the party goes to the Yose- 

 mitc National Park where five days will be spent in the 

 camps, and in seeing the beauties of this famous valley. 

 Leaving the park, the party passes through the Sierra 

 National Forest on the way to Fresno. The next point 

 of interest will be the General Grant National Park where 

 the Big Trees wiU be seen at their best. A visit to Hume, 

 a lumber town in the heart of the Sequoia National For- 

 est, will give a new idea of transportation of timber, by 

 a fifty-four-mile flume winding down the mountain. Los 

 Angeles for three days with short excursions to Pasadena 

 and the island of Santa Catalina follows. An optional 

 visit may be made to the Los Angeles Mimicipal Camp 

 in the Angeles National Forest, where public recreational 

 facilities have been highly developed. San Diego and its 

 exposition will next be visited, followed by a motor trip 

 to Redlands and San Bernardino where will begin the 

 homeward journey, interrupted only by a two-days' stop 

 at the Grand Canyon. 



Arrangements are being made by boards of trade and 

 similar organizations in the Coast cities to give the party 

 a hearty welcome. A nominal guest fee will be charged 

 to non-members of the Massachusetts Forestry Associa- 

 tion, but this will not apply to applicants who are members 

 of other forestry or conservation organizations. Further 

 details of the tour can be obtained by writing to the Tour 

 Director, Dr. C. L. Babcock, 31 Trinity Place, Boston, 

 Massachusetts. 



LAKE SUNAPEE 

 By Richard Butler Glaenzer 



Oh, do you know that lovely lake not far from Croydon 

 So like some girlish dreamer wlicn asleep ; 

 When wide-awake, so like some hoyden? 



That lake which seems so shallow, yet is deep, so deep? 



There are a thousand lakes more large, oh, far more spa- 

 cious, 



Basincd among great mountains capped with snow; 



But none with marge more brightly gracious, 

 .■\nd largeness counts for Httle: here is glow and glow! 



The glow, the gentle silver gleam of far more birches 



Then ever Indian wanted for canoe: 



A waking dream for one who searches 

 For gleam of haunting silver — such as you and you ! 



'T'HE Grand Rapids, Michigan, Y. M. C. A. is starting 

 -*- an innovation in the organization of an educational 

 class for members of the many lumber and forest products 

 factories of the city. Such problems as methods of cutting, 

 sawing, piling and air-drying are to be considered. 



