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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



NEW JERSEY 



New Jersey has been extremely fortunate 

 with regard to lire losses during the past 

 summer and fall, in comparison with other 

 sections of the country. The excessive 

 rainfall has almost prevented fires from 

 starting. From August 1st until the mid- 

 dle of November there have been less 

 than ten fires in the entire state, and all 

 of these have been trifling. For this 

 period the total has usually been from 150 

 to 300. Last year during the four months 

 there were 152 fires, while the year before 

 there were 241. 



The three year terms of must of the 

 local firewardens within the state expire 

 at the end of the year. The freedom from 

 fires has enabled the staff to devote much 

 of its energy to the reorganization and 

 strengthening of this field force. The 

 dead wood is being replaced by good tim- 

 ber, and special efforts are being made to 

 insure that wardens who have displayed 

 ability are reappointed. 



The withdrawal of one of the division 

 wardens from the Forest Fire Service to 

 take up educational work brings about tlie 

 first change in the staff of the state organi- 

 zation. 



NEW YORK 



nPHAT America can produce better for- 

 ests than nature has given us, under 

 right application of forestry was the dec- 

 laration of Dr. Hugh P. Baker, 

 Dean of the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse before the American 

 Paper and Pulp association in convention 

 at New York, when the nation's paper 

 makers asked him to discuss the report of 

 their committee on forestry. He said : 

 "The long growing Adirondack and other 

 forests today not aided by man, may be 

 growing at the rate of 200 board feet 

 per year. The Black Forest, and other 

 forest areas of Europe, not as well adapted 

 to forest growth as very much of tlie 

 forest area of this country, before the war 

 were producing more than a thousand 

 board feet per acre per year, and at the 

 same time conserving water more effec- 

 tively, were better places for fish and game, 

 and were as effective as man can make a 

 forest for recreational purposes. 



"The difficult coal situation which has 

 been before the public and our national 

 government is educating the people in this 

 country to the point where it is barely 

 possible that tlie public may force the 

 maintaining of productivity of forest 

 lands as it looks as if the government 

 may force the productivity from coal 

 mines. It will be nuich better if the 

 forest industries will solve these problems 

 themselves by providing unity of action 

 rather than to be forced into an awkward 

 situation by what seems to be public wel- 

 fare. 



"New \'iirk probably leads the states of 

 the union in the reforestation of forest 

 lands. Great credit is due the State Con- 



servation Commission for the aggressive 

 way in which it has carried on reforesta- 

 tion. What they are doing, however, is 

 but a drop in the bucket. What is the 

 reforestation of three or four thousand 

 acres when the State alone owns hundreds 

 of thousand of acres which must be par- 

 tially or wholly reforested before they can 

 be put into profitable condition. The state 

 should bond itself, if necessary, to pro- 

 tect and encourage the forest industries of 

 the state as has been done for better 

 highways and a great barge canal. 

 There should be inducements held out to 

 the owners of agricultural land to get 

 better farm crops. Forestry is second in 

 importance to agriculture as a fundamen- 

 tal to the life of a nation." 



Uncle Sam has given formal recogni- 

 tion to the State Ranger School of the 

 New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse, by sending to the school four of 

 his wounded soldiers, and by preparing to 

 send others from all parts of the United 

 States. While going to school they are 

 being paid $80 a tnonth from the govern- 

 ment. The Federal Board of Vocational 

 Training has particularly been interested 

 in the opportunity for building back into 

 profitable occupations those soldiers whose 

 lungs were torn by gas, or who were in- 

 jured in battle, by sending them into the 

 big out-of-doors where they can be train- 

 ed for service whicli gives them an open 

 air life. 



OREGON 



A T a meeting of forest protective agen- 

 cies held at Klamath Falls, Oregon, 

 October 21, and 22, 1919, representatives 

 of the United States Forest Service, State 

 Forest Service of Oregon, Klamath Indian 

 Service, Crater National Park. Oregon 

 Agricultural College, Western Forestry 

 and Conservation Association and Klam- 

 ath-Lake Counties Forest Fire Association 

 being present the following resolutions 

 were unanimously adopted : 



In view of the importance of the forest 

 industry in the State of Oregon and the 

 large percentage of the taxes of the State 

 paid by said industry, and since insect 

 depredations in the timber are in certain 

 localities a decided menace, we feel that 

 greater attention should be given to for- 

 est entomology in the state. We. therefore 

 urge the Oregon Agricultural College to 

 build up a strong department of Forest 

 ICntomology and through such department 

 lend assistance to owners of timber in the 

 state in control of insect depredations. 



In view of tlie serious fires which oc- 

 curcd in Oregon the past season and the 

 expense involved in fighting said fires, it 

 is apparent that the appropriation for pro- 

 tection of Oregon and California (iraiit 

 Lands will not be sufficient to pay the pro 

 rata share of cost of protection of said 

 lands. W'e, therefore urge u|ion our Con- 

 gressional delegation that they use every 



effort to see that $1.5,000.00 additional be 

 provided for protection of these lands the 

 current fiscal year. 



In view of the yearly damage to timber 

 (particularly yellow pine) resulting from 

 insect depredations, and the imperative 

 need of perfecting methods for the control 

 of said depredations, we earnestly request 

 the United States Forest Service to in- 

 crease its personnel in Oregon for such 

 work and further ask that the service co- 

 operate with and extend assistance to pri- 

 vate owners in the State of Oregon look- 

 ing to more efficient insect control. 



Whereas, the grazing areas in the State 

 of Oregon are being reduced yearly owing 

 to homestead occupation, reproduction of 

 forests, etc., a growing congestion on the 

 ranges seriously threatens the live stock 

 industry unless some federal regulation is 

 provided on all public lands ; and 



Whereas, there are over three million 

 acres in the Oregon and California Land 

 Grant, more or less of which will provide 

 feed for live stock pending disposal under 

 the public land laws ; 



Resolved, that we respectfully urge the 

 Department of the Interior to adopt and 

 put into effect a policy of leasing the 

 grazing privileges on these Oregon and 

 California Lands to live stock growers, and 

 that the proceeds be used to increase the 

 present appropriation for the protection of 

 said lands from forest fire. 



Whereas, there are located in Deschutes, 

 Klamath and Lake Counties, State of Ore- 

 gon approximately 83,000 acres of land 

 being administered by the Interior Depart- 

 ment of the United States Government on 

 which is growing more or less lodgepole 

 pine of little commercial value, but which 

 constitutes an extremely bad fire menace 

 to adjoining National Forest Lands and 

 lands belonging to private individuals or 

 companies on which is growing a stand of 

 commercial yellow pine timber, and as our 

 state laws require the private owners to 

 lirovide an adequate fire patrol to prevent 

 loss from forest fires, and to do so it has 

 been necessary in the past for said owners 

 to patrol and fight fires upon the Interior 

 Department lands for the protection of 

 their own interests; 



Therefore, we urge upon our representa- 

 tives in Congress the necessity for an ap- 

 pro|)riation of not less than $.5000.00 per 

 annniii to be used for the protection of 

 these lands ; and we urgently request the 

 Secretary of the Interior to make request 

 for this amount of money for the above 

 purposes in his next annual budget. 



WISCONSIN 



rplll': Forest Products Laboratory, at 

 -'- Madison, has prepared a list of govern- 

 ment and state bulletins of value to wood- 

 lot owners who wish to market their pro- 

 ducts. This list will be furnished by the 

 laboratory to anyone upon request. 



