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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



liminar\' preparations for the reforesta- 

 tion of fifty-five 40-acre tracts of land 

 located in Presque Isle County, Michi- 

 gan. Sites for buildings necessary dur- 

 ing the reforestation work have been 

 selected and buildings are under way. 

 Included will be a boarding house large 

 enough for twent}^ men, the number to 

 be employed in the work. Each forty 

 will be planted with Norway, white and 

 Russian pine as the chief varieties. 

 Trees will be planted 5 feet apart and 

 each tract mil be protected from fire 

 by a 16-foot clearance and in addition 

 there will be a watch tower. The job 

 represents the largest reforestation pro- 

 ject yet undertaken in the State. 



General education work in forestry 

 is being carried on again this season by 

 the New York State College of For- 

 estry among High Schools, Granges, 

 Men's and Women's Clubs and other 

 organizations throughout the State of 

 New York. This work is done with 

 the idea that in spite of all the propa- 

 gandist work that has been done in 

 forestry in this country the man on the 

 street is still quite ignorant of forest 

 conditions and forest needs. In the 

 winter of 1913-14 the College sent its 

 foresters into 235 communities speaking 

 to over 60,000 people. Already the 

 present season the College has received 

 applications from 142 organizations 

 such as Granges, High Schools, Men's 

 Clubs, Commercial Clubs, etc. At the 

 present time from two to three counties 

 are being made each week and foresters 

 are talking to from 50 to 500 people at 

 a lecture. During the week beginning 

 November 16th, Professor R. P. Prich- 

 ard gives illustrated addresses before f our 

 schools and granges in Erie County; 

 Professor W. A. McDonald talks to 

 three schools and a large Y. M. C. A. in 

 Clinton coimty; Mr. Shirley W. Allen 

 speaks before five High Schools in 

 Westchester County. 



In the national forests of District 4 of 

 the Forest Service comprising parts of 

 Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona, 

 the 1914 forest fire season is practically 

 ended. 



The total of 399 fires this year is 

 fifteen greater than in 1910, although 

 the cost of extinguishing them was only 

 one-third, and the total damage caused 

 only 3 76% of that of the great fire vear. 

 In 1910, of a total of 384 fires, 237, or 

 62%, caused a damage of less than $100, 

 while 38%, or 147, each burned property 

 worth $100 or more. This season the 

 number of fires whose damage was less 

 than $100 was 923^%, only 30 fires, or 

 7/^% of the total, doing a damage 

 greater than $100. 



Seventy per cent of the fires occurred 

 on the Idaho, Boise, ChaUis, Payette, 

 Salmon, Targhee and Weiser Forests, 

 lying in the main, in an east and west 

 belt across central Idaho on the northern 

 border of District 4, and 95% of the 

 total expenditure for fires was incurred 

 on these forests. 



The timber destroyed was greatest 

 on the Idaho, twenty million feet on 

 15,900 acres, and second greatest on the 

 Salmon with 2,164,000 board feet, the 

 acreage of timber land burned over on 

 this forest being 10,818 acres. 



The Supervisor of the Palisade speaks 

 of the headway gained in coping with 

 fires by use of automobiles, which in 

 each case this year not only proved 

 cheaper, counting the time of the men 

 transported, than horse equipment, but 

 of course contributed in a greater way in 

 facilitating an earlier attack on the fire. 

 This forest is surrounded by an unusual 

 number of ranches and irrigated and dry 

 farms, and the Supervisor states that 

 he or -District rangers were notified 

 by from five to ten different persons of 

 each fire, which shows the deep interest 

 and splendid cooperation of the citizens 

 generally toward the suppression of fires. 



Upon the invitation of Hon. Frank L. 

 Moore of Watertown, N. Y., President 

 of the Empire State Forest Products 

 Association, and also President of the 

 American Paper and Pulp Association, 

 the State College of Forestry at Syracuse 

 developed for the annual meeting of the 

 Empire State Forests Products Associa- 

 tion at Utica on November 12th a very 

 complete exhibit -showing various kinds 

 of tirnber preservation and the various 

 materials used in preservation. This 



