500 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



CONTROL OF SAND DUNES some ten feet and the screen set up on 



top of the drift. If the screen is six 



The struggles of the French foresters feet high, a dune twelve feet high will 

 against the invasions of the sand dunes have been formed by the time the sand 

 along the southwest- coast resulted in has again drifted up to the level of the 

 developing an admirable system of dune top of the screen. The stakes are again 

 control, simple, logical and inexpensive, pulled up, advanced and set up on top 

 It was found that the only way to ar- of this drift and the process is repeated 

 rest sand invasion was at its source, — until in the course of several years a 

 at the ocean shore line itself,— and it dune forty feet high has been erected, 

 was also found that it was not a difficult At this height the sand drift has re- 

 matter to make the ocean build its own juced almost to nothing and the char- 

 dune. Once havmg built a dune forty ^^^^^ ^f ^^^ deposits on the dune 

 to sixty feet above sea level, further changes. More and more organic mat- 

 sand invasion would cease and plants ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ lodgment, and, 

 and sedge could then be successfully ^^^^ ^^. ^^^.^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^1^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^ 

 grown upon the dune. j • v ^ ui ^i i • u 



The niethod of procedure is as fol- ^^"^' ''''''^^' vegetable growth which 

 lows: At a calculated distance back fo" ^PP^^rs from natural seeding, 

 from the beach a line of stakes is Sedge, sage, sand blackberry and other 

 driven, carrying a woven wicker screen running vines appear and the forester 

 from four to six feet high. In a short encourages the growth with hand sow- 

 time the sand drift has banked up solid ing until he has a green stable dune 

 to the top of the screen, making a long, where once were continuous moving 

 gradual slope back to the shore. The drifts of sand, rolling inland and bury- 

 stakes are now pulled up, advanced ing whole forests to their treetops. 



RANB GOING ABROAD 



F. IV. Kane, State Forester of Massachusetts, has been delegated by Governor Foss to 

 represent the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the Second International Congress of 

 Entomology, which is to be held at Oxford, England, August 5 to 10, 1913. At the 

 termination of the Conventio)i, Mr. Kane zvill go on to the Black Forest of Germany to 

 study forestry conditions and the gypsy moth question. He 7(.nll remain abroad throughout 

 the montli of August. 



SAVING NEW YORK'S ELM TREES 



Park Commissioner Stover, of Nciv York City, is doing everything in his pozver to save 

 the elm trees in Central Park attacked by caterpillars, known to landscape gardeners as< 

 tussock moths. 



"We are scraping and spraying the trees," said the Commissioner, "and we never cease 

 our efforts to save a tree except when it becomes clear that the labor and expense are 

 wasted— that it cannot be saved. When this appears another tree is planted in its place." 



FIRE PROTECTION IN ALBERTA 



The Canadian States are taking advanced grounds on the question of fire protection, 

 especially with reference to forests, as indicated by recent reports of legislation from that 

 section. 



Railway companies operating in the province of Alberta are liable for fires in forests 

 and elsewhere starting within 300 yards of their rights-of-way, both sides, according to 

 a neiv act effective on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, July 5, and on the Canadian Northern 

 and Grand Trunk Pacific lines, July 15. It is provided under the regulations, given out 

 at Edmonton on July 3, that in the event a fire gains control the carrier company musP 

 fight it to the extent of ten miles, being responsible for the cost and the damage. 



