FOREST NOTES 



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county in the State. So far, the State 

 has already published those of the west- 

 ern mountainous portion, and is now 

 getting out bulletins on the counties in 

 the Piedmont region. 



The work is being done by the for- 

 estry division of the geological and 

 economic survey of North Carolina, 

 and each report is a concise statement 

 occupying less than four printed pages. 

 It is intended by the survey that these 

 reports of individual counties may be 

 reprinted by the local newspapers, 

 because in that way the specific local 

 information will be given to the people 

 in the cheapest and most direct way. 



Montana, or from the Forest Super- 

 visor at Orofino, Idaho. 



The Government has just offered for 

 sale two tracts of timber on Lolo Creek 

 within the Clearwater National Forest, 

 Idaho, aggregating 600 million feet of 

 saw timber and 350 thousand cedar 

 poles, together with a considerable 

 amount of material for piling, shin-, 

 gles, and posts. A large part of the 

 timber is Idaho white pine, but the 

 stands include yellow pine, lodgepole, 

 spruce, western larch, Douglas fir, 

 cedar, and white fir. The prices, which 

 represent the lowest rates which will 

 be considered for the saw timber, range 

 from $3.50 for green white pine to 

 50 cents a thousand for Douglas fir, 

 western larch, and cedar. The prices 

 of poles range from 5 cents to $2.40 

 apiece, depending upon the size. 



Full particulars may be obtained 

 from the District Forester, at Afissoula, 



Nearly 17,000 acres have just been 

 added by act of Congress to the Cari- 

 bou National Forest, Idaho. This is 

 one of the first of such additions 

 through congressional action, and is the 

 largest so far made by direct legisla- 

 tion. 



Those who have followed the Na- 

 tional Forest movement in this country 

 will recall that most of the forests have 

 been created through presidential proc- 

 lamation, which set aside, for timber 

 growing or for water protection, certain 

 areas of the public domain. In March, 

 1907, however, Congress passed a law 

 that no further additions should be 

 made to the National Forest areas in 

 the States of Colorado, Idaho, Mon- 

 tana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyo- 

 ming, except through congressional 

 action. 



Since July, 1909, residents of the 

 city of Montpelier, Idaho, have been 

 petitioning to have this 17,000 acres 

 added to the Caribou National Forest, 

 because the area includes the watershed 

 of the stream which furnishes the city's 

 water supply. Not being within a 

 National Forest, the tract was given 

 over to unregulated grazing and other 

 usages which resulted in stream pollu- 

 tion and became a serious menace to 

 health. The citizens of Montpelier. at 

 several times subsequent to their first 

 efiforts in 1909, renewed their petition; 

 rnd the act just passed represents the 

 successful outcome of their efiforts. 



Fire Rangers Use Steel Towers. 



The steel towers that support electric power transmission lines are being increasingly 

 used by forest rangers as fire lookout stations on national forests. With the harnessing of 

 the mountain streams a network of these lines is gradually being woven over the forests and 

 in the absence of other convenient lookouts, the rangers find the steel towers helpful in their 

 fire patrol work. 



New Fire Fightirifi Tool. 



A tool used to fight fires on the California forests combines a rake, spade and hoe. 

 Is compact so that it can be carried on horseback, and weighs less than 5J-2 pounds. 



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