FOREST NOTES 



763 



This land has recently been selected and 

 is now being surveyed and marked. It 

 includes some of the best stands of 

 timber to be found in this region. Some 

 of the areas are open land adapted to 

 experiments in high altitude agriculture. 

 These tracts should furnish excellent 

 places in which to carry on the field 

 work connected with the course in For- 

 estry here. 



An inspiring musical composition 

 lately published is "The Call of the 

 Wilderness," words by Mr. Scott Lea- 

 vitt, forest supervisor at Great Falls, 

 Montana, music by Miss Augusta B. 

 Palmer, of the Forest Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The song has been dedi- 

 cated to the forest rangers. It is es- 

 pecially adaptable to Arbor Day exer- 

 cises and to forestry and conservation 

 programs. "The Message," words and 

 music bv Miss Palmer, published coin- 

 cident with "The Call of the Wilder- 

 ness," is a charming little song of the 

 fields and woods. 



A short time ago the presence of sev- 

 eral members of the Washington office 

 of the Forest Service at the headquar- 

 ters of District 3, in Albuquerque, New 

 Mexico, where field duty had taken them 

 prompted the members of the District 

 office to propose and carry out a "Get- 

 Together" dinner on a "Dutch treat" 

 basis. The dinner was held at the Al- 

 varado, the Harvey hotel. Those pres- 

 ent from the Albuquerque office were : 

 A. O. Waha, acting district forester in 

 charge of the branch of operation; John 

 Kerr, assistant district forester, in 

 charge of the branch of grazing; A. D. 

 Read, forest examiner of the office of 

 grazing; T. S. Woolsey, in charge of 

 the branch of silviculture ; Quincy 

 Randies, timber sale inspector, of the 

 office of sihiculture ; j. O. Seth, assis- 

 tant to the Solicitor, Department of 

 Agriculture ; Lyle A. Whitsit, hydro- 

 electrical engineer ; M. M. Cheney, na- 

 tional forest examiner, of the office of 

 lands : Frederic Winn, in charge of land 

 classification, of the office of lands; 

 and James F. Mullen, supervisor of the 

 Manzano-Zuni Forest. Those present 



from the Washington office were : Al- 

 bert F. Potter, associate forester, in 

 charge of the branch of grazing; J. T. 

 Jardine, inspector of grazing; R. Y. 

 Stuart, forest inspector in charge of 

 timber sales, of the branch of silvicul- 

 ture; P>ristow Adams, forest examiner, 

 in charge of the office of information; 

 also W. S. Clime, photographer of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and F. F. 

 Moon, professor of forestry at Syra- 

 cuse University. 



Thirty of the Iowa State College 

 forestry students have returned from 

 summer camps held on the Minnesota 

 National Forest. The camp was located 

 on Star Island in Cass Lake, where fine 

 virgin stands of white pine, red pine 

 and jack pine occur. The camp con- 

 sisted of twelve weeks' work. The 

 work comprised timber estimating, to- 

 pographic and type mapping, silvicul- 

 tural studies, logging, milling, minor 

 forest industries, dendrology and tree 

 diseases. The region of the Minnesota 

 National Forest offers spendid oppor- 

 tunities for the study of logging and 

 milling first hand. The region also pre- 

 sents many silvicultural problems for 

 the student of forestry. The Iowa 

 State College is planning on making the 

 camp at Cass Lake a permanent afifair. 



The purchase has just been com- 

 pleted by the State Forester of a tract 

 of about 3,000 acres in the town of 

 Underbill, Vermont. This area, which 

 is now the largest of the State's forests, 

 lies on the west side of the Green 

 Mountain range just south of Mount 

 ATansfield. With the exception of 

 about 100 acres of burned land, the 

 whole area is well wooded. It is for- 

 tunate that the State could acquire it 

 before the mountain was stripped, be- 

 cause the lumber supply will not only 

 be of great value to the town, but the 

 two streams rising on the tract, Stevens 

 Brook and Lee River, would be seri- 

 ously afifected by deforestation. The 

 price paid was $3.25 an acre, consider- 

 ably less than that first asked. 



The State Forester is now having a 

 map and careful estimate made of the 



