THE ADIRONDACK PROBLEM 59 



conditions of anj' such land be interrupted, endangered, or destroyed by clean 

 cutting or otherwise." 



Since The Camp-Fire Club does not desire at this time to take up the 

 question of water power, I have to add merely that the principles upon 

 which this part of the larger problem of the use of the Adirondacks should 

 be decided I believe to be these : 



First. — State development, ownership, construction, and control of water 

 power on State lands. 



Second. — Fair compensation to the State for the use of power thus 

 created. 



Third. — Regulation of rates charged to the ultimate consumer. 



Fourth. — Cooperation with the National Government for the complete 

 development and control in the public interest, of all power on navigable and 

 other streams within the State. 



This report is based on the field work and experience of Mr. Overton 

 W. Price, my associate in the United States Forest Service and the National 

 Conservation Association, and myself. It ends as it began. Forestry is 

 flourishing in New York everywhere but in the woods. The time is ripe for a 

 change. 



Game tvardens of the northeastern section of Pennsylvania have caused 

 arrests during the last feiv weeks since the hunting season opened of a number 

 of hunters found lighting fires in the woods, thus preventing a number of 

 destructive forest fires whi< h spread rapidly in the sections where the timber is 

 mostly second groicth. 



State Forester Cox figures that the average annual fire loss in the wood^ 

 of Minnesota is $5,000,000. This appalling figure he justifies by statistics that 

 withstand criticism. An annual appropriation of $75,000 is all that the legis- 

 lature has made to use in work toivards preventing this loss. 



Parties who have spent part of the summer in the Olympic Mountains 

 found that lightning is undoubtedly responsible for many forest fires. The 

 trees were found splintered by the lightning and areas for miles square tvere 

 burnt over adjacent to these trees. 



Do not overlook the fact that a very desirable Christmas present for w 

 friend, costing but three dollars, is a membership in the American ForestnJ 

 Association and a subscription to this magazine for a year. 



Assistant District Forester T. C. Hoyt, of Utah, has gone to Boise, Idaho, 

 for the purpose of inspecting a recent claim in controversy on the Southern 

 fork of the Payette River in the Boise National Forest. 



