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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



by men of experience and proxen liusiness acumen a Mr. Kaestner received his early education in the pub- 



distinctly progressive step is taken. The personal knowl- lie schools of Philadelphia, graduating from the Central 

 edge and influence of the members of the new company, High School, Course of Commerce, in 1910. His For- 

 their understanding of the timber and lumber industries, 

 the very high regard in which "Lacey" rejiorts and 

 recommendations are held, renders it possible for the 

 company to perform a genuine ser\ice for their clients. 



The officers of the company are: T^resident, James D. 

 Lacey ; vice-president and treasurer, Wood Deal ; vice- 

 president, \'ictor Thrane ; secretary, J. W. McCurdv. 

 The directors include the officers named and Frank D. 

 Stout and Lamont Rowlands, of Chicago, and Charles 

 S. Keith, of Kansas City, Mo. < )ther stockholders of 

 equal prominence are available for service on the board. 

 The knowledge, experience and abilitv of the officers and 

 directors of the company, fortified and supported by the 

 reliable and detailed information in their possession, has 

 made possiljle the success already ol)tained. The advent 

 of this comi)an\' should ser\e to place lunilier anil tim1)er 

 finance on a much more secure basis. 



The facts briefly recited here will make a strong apjieal 

 to every forester and to all interested in the subject, for 

 practical forestry means profitable forestr\- and entails 

 satisfactory methods of finance. 



BEAVER DAMS LAST 150 YEARS 



HI iW' long will a l)ea\er dam last? .\t least a 

 hundred and fifty years is the conclusion of the 

 New York Conservation Coniiuission, as the re 

 suit of an examination of trees growing upon a verv old 

 dam in the \icinitv of h'.ighth Lake in the Fulton Chain. 



Scrub white cedars on this dam were cut down, in order 

 to count their annual growth rings, by W. C. Talmage, 

 of Camp W'aubun, v'^eventh I., ike, whn-,e slud\- (if l)eaver> 

 during the last thirty years has taken him over many oi 

 the wild portions of the LTnited States and Canada. A 

 section of one, just recei\ed by the Conimissii in, is nine 

 inches in diameter and shows l"^"i annual rings. ( )thers 

 as large as sixteen inches have rotted in the center until 

 thev are mere shells, whose ;ige can only be guessed at. 



I )n the su])position th,-U the trees could not lia\e taken 

 II II it upon the ilam u)itil it had liL'Ciime co\ered with 

 humus from dead leaves, or silt washed on by the stream, 

 it is belie\ed bv the Conimissii m that tlu- dam dates back 

 certainly until i;(;."i, before iIk- pnwer uf the Iroquois 

 Confederacy was broken, and when iIk- Adirondacks 

 were still their bea\er hunting country nf apparently 

 inexhaustible supply. Then e\err stream held evidence 

 of their skill, and the pelts that they supjilieil even passed 

 for currency at Fort Orange and New "S'ork. 



In their old haunts along the Fulton Chain they are 

 coming into their own again, until they have becnnie one 

 of the jirime attractions of the reginn. 



WEST VIRGINIA'S STATE FORESTER 



B^ kl-'.Ch.XT acti.iii of the legi^laluie .if West 

 \ irgini.a the ]iiisiliiin of State I'orester was 

 created, under the Department of the h'orest, 

 Cianie .and Fish Warden, and H. ]. Kaestner, A'i27 Lan- 

 caster .\ve., West 1 'hilailelpbia. was .ippninted. 



11. J. K.\IiSTNER 



The young Pliiladelpliian, a graduate of tlie Pennsylvania State College 

 Forestry Department, who has been appointed State Forester of West 

 Virginia. 



cstry work was ]iursued at the rennsylvania State Col- 

 lege, from which institutinii he received his degree in 

 l!tl4. 



Air. Kaestner, butli as a student and since graduating, 

 has traveled extensively through the forested regions of 

 the LTnited States. He has seen active service on the 

 Cascade Xatimial h'urest in (Jregnii, while extensive triiis 

 tlirongh Xew Fngland, the Lake States and the Southern 

 States were made by him in ]iursuance of his studies 

 while at college. 



Headquarters of the Forestry Department ai'e main- 

 tained at I'lelington, W. \'a. This department lias been 

 ci inducted tnnler the direction nf J. .\. \'ic|uesney. State 

 I'orest, (ianie and b*i>h W.arden and it is now assuming 

 the iiii])ortant pusition in the grnwth of that State which 

 it so justly deserves. West X'irginia, ranking eleventh 

 in lumber ]iroduction, realizes the inipnrtance of its 

 natural resnurces and the field open to Mv. Kaestner is 

 a larsfe one. 



