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est Commission that an allotment of $2,000 

 will be made to New Jersey to aid in the 

 work of controlling forest fires during the 

 present year. Last year the State received 

 $1,000 from the appropriation, which was ex- 

 pended in establishing a fire patrol in the 

 northern part of the state. 



California 



According to the statements of J. .V. Boyle, 

 special investigator of the State Forestry Of- 

 fice, at Santa Barbara, Cal., two investigators 

 are working in the northern part of Cali- 

 fornia making an extensive investigation of 

 the system of taxing timber lands. The in- 

 vestigation is an exhaustive one and will 

 cover all the timber lands in California. It 

 is being made at the request of the National 

 Conservation Commission at Washington. D. 

 C. It is understood that after the investiga- 

 tion in California has been completed, the 

 work will assume a national scope. On ac- 

 count of the vast timber holdings in the 

 northern part of the state, the work is of 

 great importance and will be carried on in 

 a searching and thorough manner. 



Forest rangers of the Redlands (Cali- 

 fornia) section have begun planting 15,000 

 eucalyptus trees on the foothills of the moun- 

 tains, north of Del Rosa and West High- 

 lands. It is the first eucalyptus planting in 

 the local mountains, but it is expected many 

 more trees will be planted in the foothills in 

 the next few vears. 



West Virginia 



West Virginia forests are said by experts 

 to be remarkable for their extent, their va- 

 riety, and the number of species of trees. 

 Certainly it is stated that in no other forest 

 area in America can a greater variety in 

 species and size be found. The early settlers 

 of the state, careless of the future, decimated 

 the soft woods in the erection of their homes 

 and in making their "clearings." But the 

 hardwood, better than the soft woods sur- 

 vived the ordeal, and their seedlings are to- 

 day ready for the ax and the saw. The first 

 movement for the systematic and effective 

 conservation of West Virginia's forests was 

 begun twenty-five years ago. Today the 

 state's timber is of enormous value and the 

 buyers from all the world's markets are con- 

 stantly in the field in an effort to secure it 

 against future consumption. 



Michigan 



Upper Michigan pine forests are fast be- 

 coming a memory, as the lumbermen are con- 

 tenting themselves with hardwood and hem- 

 lock, where in years gone by they would dis- 

 dain to cut anything but the stately white 

 pine. 



The last big tract of pine in Luce county — 

 big as such tracts are nowadays — is being 

 cut this winter by F. Chesbrough and is being 

 banked on the Taquamenon River. It con- 

 sists of 3,000,000 feet of the finest cork pine. 

 The timber is so located that logging opera- 



tions are difficult. It is a 12-mile haul from 

 the camps north of Newberry to the river. 



At the big union meeting of teachers and 

 grangers at Hesperia, Mich., in February, 

 Prof. Filibert Roth, of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the University of Michigan, advo- 

 cated the establishment of a state bureau of 

 forestry. At the present rate of cutting tim- 

 ber, he said, the state would be stripped of 

 this resource in a short time and a bureau of 

 forestry would tend to educate citizens to 

 plant trees before the state's forests are all 

 gone. 



Florida 



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P. T. Day, of Cleveland, O., the largest 

 naval stores operator in the West, predicted 

 in Savannah, Ga., recently that if the present 

 profligate destruction of trees in Florida is 

 continued that state will be totally denuded 

 of pines in a few years. He said the matter 

 had been brought to the attention of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture and that the govern- 

 ment officials had concurred in his predic- 

 tion. 



Wisconsin 



State Forester E. M. Griffith of Wisconsin,, 

 returning from a visit to Washington, D. C, 

 says that there is a favorable outlook for the 

 passage of Congressman E. A. Morse's bill 

 to add to the state forest reserves 216 islands 

 in the forest reserve area in Vilas and Oneida 

 counties of Wisconsin. A letter from Con- 

 gressman Morse gives further encourage- 

 ment for the success of the measure. The 

 islands contain 167 acres and the state de- 

 sires to add them to the reserves for their 

 conservation. 



Under the terms of the bill, they would 

 be used only for forest reserve purposes 

 if given to the state. 



Mr. Griffith secured from the forestry 

 service at Washington an extension of its- 

 contract with the Wisconsin Forestry Board 

 for supplying a federal forest patrol to work 

 with the state guardians, the contract involv- 

 ing $5,000 annually. , 



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Minnesota 



To arrange for co-operation between the 

 railroads and the State Forestry Service dur- 

 ing the dangerous fire season of 1912, State 

 Forester Cox called a meeting of railroad 

 officials and forest rangers at Braincrd to- 

 outline a plan for fire prevention and pro- 

 ttection. .Although two months or more 

 probably will elapse before the season for 

 forest fires begins, Mr. Cox proposes having 

 arrangements completed for protecting- 

 Northern Minnesota when that time arrives. 

 During the dangerous season there will be 

 fifteen rangers and nearly two hundred pa- 

 trolmen on the lookout to prevent damage 

 by forest fires. 



New Hampshire 



A systematic campaign against the gypsy 

 moth in New Hampshire has been started by 



