FOREST NOTES 



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est standard of efficiency in the work 

 may be secured and maintained. For- 

 ester DuBois has had particular success 

 in forest tire work, and whatever con- 

 ckisions he draws as a result of his wide 

 experience are of marked value. 



There has been much in the news- 

 papers of late about the volcanic activ- 

 ity of Mt. Lassen, in California. For- 

 est Service officials, however, who are 

 on the ground, are reported by news- 

 papers as saying that the disturbance 

 is due to a geyser and is not volcanic. 

 No smoke is ascending, but the steam 

 forces upwards a large quantity of 

 light-blue ashes and these have been 

 scattered over portions of the country to 

 a distance of twenty miles. 



the University is to pay the expenses of 

 the work until the neeting of the next 

 Assembly, in 1910, is expected to make 

 an announcement of the appointment at 

 almost any time. The man who takes 

 the place will find the majority of the 

 people of the State eager to learn how 

 to care for their woodlots and forested 

 lands, and it is generally expected that 

 he will make such a good showing, 

 for there is the opportunity to do so, 

 that the citizens will insist upon their 

 legislators, two years hence, providing 

 a substantial appropriation for carrying 

 on the work. 



This season's reforestation work on 

 the Black Hills National Forest in 

 South Dakota covered an area of 867 

 acres by direct seeding of yellow pine. 

 This is the tenth consecutive year that 

 work of this character has been done 

 and a total area of over 6,000 acres has 

 now been covered. The results have 

 been uniformly successful and pros- 

 pects for the establishment of a good 

 forest cover on the Roubaix burn are 

 very good. 



In addition to the direct seeding 15,- 

 000 two-year-old yellow pine and 5,000 

 Douglas fir seedlings were planted. 



During the spring of this year 867 

 acres of the area known as the Roubaix 

 Burn, in the Black Hills National For- 

 est, were reforested by direct seeding. 

 In addition, 15,000 yellow pine and 5,000 

 Douglas fir seedlings were planted. 



This year's work marks the tenth 

 consecutive year this reforestation work 

 has been done on the Black Hills Na- 

 tional Forest. According to Forest 

 Supervisor Kelleter, some of the earliest 

 successful work done by the Forest 

 Service was done on the Black Hills 

 National Forest, and at the present time 

 a very good stand of thrifty trees of 

 good size is to be found on the oldest 

 areas. Up to the present time a little 

 over 6,000 acres have been reforested 

 by direct seeding. 



Ralph M. Hosmer, who for several 

 years has been director of forestry in 

 Hawaii, has accepted the offer made to 

 him by Cornell University to take 

 charge of the forestry department there 

 in place of Prof. Walter L. Mulford, 

 who becomes the head of the depart- 

 ment of forestry at the University of 

 California at Berkeley, Cal. 



At this writing a State forester for 

 Virginia has not yet been selected. The 

 new law went into effect on June 1. 

 Several well-known foresters have been 

 mentioned for the place and Dr. Alder- 

 man, dean of the University of Vir- 

 ginia at Charlottesville, where the State 

 forestry department will be located, as 



Members of the North Carolina State 

 Forestry Association and the Appa- 

 lachian Park Association held a joint 

 meeting at Asheville, N. C, on June 10 

 and enthusiastically discussed forest 

 conditions in North Carolina, and also 

 the progress being made in securing an 

 Appalachian Park. Dr. Joseph Hyde 

 Pratt, State geologist, presided and 

 there were several excellent addresses. 

 Mrs. William J. Cocke, of Asheville, 

 told how interested the women of the 

 city are in the effort to conserve the 

 forests of the State; State Forester 

 Barton of Kentucky spoke about con- 

 ditions in his State, and a very sound 

 and practical address on the relation of 

 the lumbermen to forestry was made 

 by W. B. Townsend, of Townsend, 



