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The Month in Government Forest Work. 



Buffaloes 

 Thrive in 

 Oklahoma 



Uncle Sam's herd of 

 fifteen buffaloes which 

 were taken from the 

 New York Zoological Garden to the 

 Wichita National Forest, Oklahoma, 

 in the early fall, are doing well in 

 their new home (the old home of their 

 race), according to advices from the 

 supervisor's headquarters at Cache. 

 Since leaving New York the herd has 

 celebrated the birth of two fine buffalo 

 calves, one of which has been named 

 Hornaday, after the name of the di- 

 rector of the New York garden which 

 gave them to the Government ; and the 

 other is called Oklahoma, after the 

 new State, which likewise was just 

 born after the herd's arrrival. 



Keeper Frank Rush, an old West- 

 ern cow-puncher and experienced buf- 

 falo man, who has handled the herd 

 since it was removed from New 

 York, says that alfalfa hay has put his 

 charges in fine shape, and that the 

 big prairie beasts are thriving as did 

 their ancestors. The buffaloes have 

 8,000 acres in which to charge and 

 snort. During the winter they will be 

 fed alfalfa hay and protected from 

 the weather and from disease in a 

 number of large shelter sheds. In the 

 spring they will be let out to roam 

 over the Wichita range, and gradual- 

 ly they will be encouraged to rustle 

 for themselves, an instinct they have 

 partially lost through years of domes- 

 tication in city parks. 



Uncle Sam The earnestness of the 



Saves Trees present Federal Admin- 

 Everywhere ■ . .• • • . 



^ istration m savmg trees 



is shown not only in the Nation- 



al Forests, but wherever the Govern- 

 ment has any opportunity to apply 

 scientific forestry. 



Besides co-operating with private 

 owners of woodland, in showing them 

 how to use conservative management, 

 and with various States in a study 

 of their forest conditions, the United 

 State Forest Service co-operates 

 also with the other branches of the 

 Federal Government. Chief among 

 these branches is the War Depart- 

 ment. The Military Reservations 

 which so far have been examined and 

 reported upon are those at West 

 Point, N. Y. ; Fort Wingate, N. M. ; 

 the Rock Island Arsenal, 111., and 

 the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. 

 At West Point the forest consists of 

 second-growth hardwoods, and for 

 some time has, in part, supplied the 

 post with cordwood, lumber, hurdle 

 poles, tan bark and other forest pro- 

 ducts. The Forest Service made a 

 working plan for this forest in 1903, 

 and since then cutting has been along 

 conservative lines, with a view of per- 

 petuating the Forest, and at the same 

 time supplying the post with a defi- 

 nite amount of wood each year. Sim- 

 ilar plans are in preparation for the 

 forests of the Rock Island and Pica- 

 tinny Arsenals. 



Arkansas 

 Men for 

 Guards 



The Forest Service has 

 just announced the ap- 

 pointment of the first 

 three forest guards who are to assist 

 Supervisor Samuel J. Record in the 

 administration of the new Arkansas 

 National Forest. It is the rule of the 

 Forest Service to select the guards 



