EDUCATIONAL 



Of all the five Pacific Coast timbered 

 states there is not one which possesses 

 greater natural advantages for maintaining 

 a live, practical, well-equipped school of 

 forestry than does California — a state of 

 unlimited resources, a wonderfully rich and 

 progressive state, that in most matters is 

 foremost in a policy of aggressive develop- 

 ment, and alert to the best interests of its 

 citizens. This brings out in more striking 

 contrast its short-sighted policy in the lack 

 of forestry school in connection with its 

 university. The nearest approach to it of 

 which the university can boast, is the For- 

 estry Club, organized by a body of its mem- 

 bers, who are putting forth herculean efforts 

 to promote the movement toward the es- 

 tablishment of a forestry department at the 

 university, through conducting a publicity 

 campaign and bringing all the support they 

 can to securing a state appropriation for 

 the department. The State of California 

 ranks third in its amount of standing tim- 

 ber; there are 28 millions of acres in the 

 National Forests in which practical forestry 

 is being conducted; has nearly a half-mil- 

 lion acres of delinquent tax land, much of 

 which will develop into state forests ; it also 

 has much logged-oflf land that is fit only 

 for reforesting. There is, and will be for 

 many years to come, an unsupplied demand 

 in the state for trained foresters, skilled 

 logging engineers, and expert knowledge of 



the entire operation from tree to finished 

 product. But it takes money to maintain 

 such training schools, and in a state where 

 lumber is one of the main industries, con- 

 tributes so large a volume of taxes for its 

 support, and is the paramount community 

 builder, it is the duty of the state to help 

 supply the technical training needed in this 

 industry, by making an appropriation that 

 will build, equip, and maintain an adequate 

 forestry department in connection with its 

 university. 



Boys' Forestry Camp 



The New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse University is to maintain a 

 forestry camp for boys at Saranac lake next 

 summer. "This will not be a 'kid glove* 

 deal, but a real educational proposition 

 which will give boys of, say, between 15 and 

 20 years of age, practical experience in 

 forest life," says Dean Baker. "It will cure 

 a lot of them of the forestry bee, and at the 

 same time fix a love of scientific forestry 

 in the minds of others." The tuition and 

 board will be small enough so that boys 

 whose families are in moderate circum- 

 stances can afford to join the camp. "We 

 will teach a great deal of woodcraft, some 

 forestry and a little botany and geology," 

 the dean added. 



LUMBER ASSOCIATIONS INTERESTED. 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association, with headquarters in Chicago, with 800 

 members; the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, with offices in New York, 

 with 42.5 members, and the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association of Washing- 

 ton State, with 129 members, have now been elected to membership in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the United States of America. 



THE PROUD BOAST OF MEMPHIS. 



Declaring that Memphis holds undisputed title to supremacy as the leading hardwood 

 lumber market of the world the Committee on Statistics of the Memphis Lumbermen's Club 

 has compiled an interesting report on the lumber situation here in 1911. 



• RAILWAY REGULATION TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES. 



Order 16570 of the Dominion of Canada Board of Railway Commissioners covers the 

 method of equipping locomotives so as to prevent them from being a cause of forest fires, 

 and at the same time lays down the liabilities and requirements of railway companies in the 

 event of such a conflagration occurring. 



A LARGE PURCHASE. 



The Laurentide Company, Ltd., Grand Mere, P. Q., have purchased a large tract of ter- 

 ritory consisting of 398 miles of forest, from the Calvin and Power Companies, on the Upper 

 St. Maurice river. The Laurentide Company already ozvn over 400 miles of territory in the 

 district. An addition to the sulphite mill is being erected by the directors. 



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