FOREST NOTES 



73 



25 to Walla Walla, Wash.; and 25 to by the States and parks receiving the 



points in Utah. The cost of capture elk. The loss in capturing and up to 



and loading on board the cars at Gardi- the time of delivery at their destination 



ner was $5 per head, which was paid was but 22 animals out of 538 shipped." 



FOREST NOTES 



view into the various courses given in 

 the lower grades. 



In spite of the fact that New York 

 leads all the other States in the amount 



of its State Forests and has done more ~ 



, . r ■ 11 1 J <^i „ ^fUo^ At the recent meetmg ot the rocono 

 plantmg of idle land han any other p^^^^^^j^,^ ^.^^ Association of Monroe 

 State, New York as a whole IS decided y ^^ Pennsvlvania. the kevnote of 

 apathetic along Forestry lines, especially ^j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^-^ ^^^^^ ^^ directors was 

 in the matter of the proper use of its ^|-^g j^^^j f^j. ^ ^yidespread education of 

 forest resources. The State College of the people of the community. The di- 

 Forestry feels that the only way of im- rectors realize that effective work in 

 proving the situation is to carry through keeping down forest fires depends much 

 an aggressive campaign of education more upon the active interest of the 

 along forestry lines beginning with the resident population than upon the con- 

 children of the State. The question of tributions of a few owners of extensive 

 how to educate the child along forestry tracts of woodland. So a movement is 

 lines is a bit perplexing in view of the now under way to instruct the residents 



1 -4- /+1 i ^,,».J;^.,1,,.,-. ;,T rT,-o,-.i of the Focono region as to the need 

 complexity of the curriculum in gram- r ^ i ■ r ^i i 



^ f J 1 • 1 o^u^^io T^-^ and value of taking care ot the woods, 



mar grades and high schools. too , • ^i • '^^ .. i .i i- •/ 



r^ 1 1 11 1 -^1 4- and in this manner to extend the limits 



often schools are burdened with too , ,, . . ^ .i • , • u ^ i 



, ,, , 1.,,, ^. of the activity of the association by tak- 



many courses or have all too little time . ^^ ^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ .^^^ .^^^ 



to teach work outlined for present membership, without regard to the hold- 

 courses. The College of Forestry by ■ ^^ ^^^^^^ j^^^^j^ ^1^^ ^^^ ^f ^^^.^^ 

 no means urges the insertion of a sepa- ^^^^ circulation of tracts, and newspaper 

 rate course m Forestry. It does be- articles are expected to infiuence grad- 

 heve, however, that the children of the ^^^lly the adult population, while the 

 State can be thoroughly acquainted with school children are being taught the les- 

 the importance of Forestry, its place in son of forest conservation through a 

 our economic life and its possibilities systematic course of instruction, under 

 as a State and National industry by the hearty co-operation of the County 

 simply injecting the Forestry point of Superintendent. 



STATE NEWS 



Maine 



The Forest Fire Protective System of 

 Maine, which was among the first estabhshed, 

 has been greatly improved the past season 

 by the addition of fifteen new lookout sta- 

 tions. This brings the number of station •. 

 up to forty-three, and Forest Commissioner 

 Blaine S. Viles plans to erect six or more 

 new stations the coming year. The fire loss 

 on the wild lands of the State for the past 

 season amounted to only $29,212.00. As this 

 area includes nearly ten million acres of for- 

 ests, with an estimated value of from sev- 

 enty-five to one hundred million dollars, it 



will be seen that this loss is comparatively 

 nothing. 



While the season w^as not a particularly 

 dry one, except for short periods of drought, 

 there were no heavy rains, and a great many 

 fires started which would have caused heavy 

 damage had they not been promptly extin- 

 guished. 



The Lookout Stations reported three hun- 

 dred and sixty-five fires during the season, 

 and patrolmen seventy-one. 



While it is realized that there may be a 

 year of such extreme drought that even the 

 most advanced measures may fail to protect 



