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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Forest Notes 



A Conservation Measure 



T. R. Helms, a member of the American 

 Forestry Association, writing from New 

 Orleans says: 



"Do not try to see how many logs you 

 can cut up, try and get all the lumber you 

 can get out of them. 



"Try to make lumber, instead of simply 

 cutting up logs. 



"You work for the interests of the com- 

 pany if you save all the lumber you can. 



"Lumber is money, do not waste it." 



This is quite different from what it was 

 years ago, when the efficiency of the saw- 

 yers was judged by the number of feet 

 of log scale they would saw in a shift, 

 and consequently they would cut up the 

 logs the quickest way they could, regard- 

 less of how much or what kind of lumber 

 they got. 



Prof. Brown Back from 6,000 Mile Trip 



Nelson C. Brown, Professor of Forest 

 Utilization in the State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse, has returned from a 

 6,000 mile trip through the National For- 

 ests of the Rockies and Cascades. Profes- 

 sor Brown left Syracuse in June and went 

 directly to New Mexico where he studied 

 methods of utilizing and protecting timber 

 in the Southern Rockies. He then went 

 up through California, visiting the redwood 

 lumbering north and east of San Fran- 

 cisco to the Puget Sound Country. There 

 he visited some of the largest sawmills in 

 the world and not only studied methods of 

 utilization and manufacture, but looked 

 carefully into the matter of methods used 

 by the western lumberman in supplying 

 the eastern markets. After studying con- 

 ditions in Idaho and Montana he visited 

 the White Pine section of northeastern 

 Minnesota, where much of the best White 

 Pine is coming from today. Professor 

 Brown brings back to the College a large 

 amount of illustrative material which will 

 be used in instructional work and in the 

 forest museum of the College. 



Ten BuSalo Calves 



The Government's herd of bufifalo on 

 the Wichita National Forest, in Oklahoma, 

 which is also a Federal game preserve, has 

 been increased by the arrival of ten calves, 

 according to a report received by the 

 Forest Service from the supervisor in 

 charge. The herd, which now comprises 

 sixty-two specimens of the almost extinct 

 bison, is in good condition, says the su- 

 pervisor, and promises to continue increas- 

 ing at a rapid rate. 



through the northwest and along the Pa- 

 cific coast studying the large logging op- 

 erations and visiting the National For- 

 ests. Prof. Chaffee expects to return in 

 November to take charge of the new op- 

 tional course in lumbering which has re- 

 cently been established at Penn State. 



Syracuse Registers 274 Men 



The State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y., has just closed registration 

 for the college year with 274 men. These 

 men have registered for four and five 

 year professional courses in Forestry and 

 represent 55 counties in the State and 12 

 States outside of New York. Some of the 

 largest county representations come from 

 Westchester, New York, Erie and Onon- 

 daga. The following States are represented. 

 Massachusetts, Vermont. New Hampshire, 

 Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, Kansas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota and District of Columbia. Russia and 

 Armenia are represented as foreign coun- 

 tries. Besides the 274 men in the profes- 

 sional courses in the State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse there are IS men taking 

 the one-year practical course in the State 

 Ranger School at Wanakena. 



What Minnesota Needs 



C. C. Andrews, secretary of the Minne- 

 sota State Forestry Board writes that: 

 "Forest consumption has been going on 

 in Minnesota seventy years, and there is 

 now need of strong measures for refores- 

 tation. There is in this State a great deal 

 of land that is chiefly valuable for the 

 production of timber, some of which is 

 bare, exposed to sun and wind and grow- 

 ing poorer every year. It is true that in 

 places one now sees a fine regrowth of 

 forest, but on an average, in my opinion, 

 after twenty years of particular observa- 

 tion, not more than 5 per cent of it is 

 well restocked (close growing), with valu- 

 able kinds of timber trees. It will take 

 nature unaided more than a century to 

 renew our forests; the State must assist. 

 Thoughtful citizens should keep this mat- 

 ter in mind and help educate a public 

 sentiment that will cause another legisla- 

 ture to give reforestation a proper start." 



Prof. Chafiee on Extended Trip 



Prof. R. R. Chaffee, who is in charge of 

 the course in lumbering at Penn State 

 Forest School, is making an extensive trip 



Wirt as Chief Fire Warden 



George H. Wirt has been appointed 

 chief forest fire warden of Pennsylvania 

 in accordance with the recent act of the 

 Legislature providing for reorganization of 

 the forest fire warden system. In this re- 

 organization the State forestry department 

 will take advantage of its foresters as they 

 are now located on State Forests and use 

 them as centers of inspection of as many 

 local fire wardens as they can conveniently 



handle. In this way it will probably be 

 able to keep in close touch with all of the 

 fire wardens in at least thirty-five counties 

 of the State and those counties which are 

 most wooded. Following that the depart- 

 ment shall take steps to organize the sys- 

 tem in other counties by cooperation with 

 local organizations of sportsmen and other 

 bodies interested in forest preservation. It 

 will also attempt to institute a complete 

 system of fire towers all over the State and 

 carry on a campaign of education against 

 forest fires. Unfortunately, the department 

 will have to be somewhat limited in the last 

 two propositions during the next two years, 

 owing to the fact that for this period of 

 time the Legislature and Governor have 

 given only $45,000 for the work. 



Mr. Wirt graduated from the Biltmore 

 Forest School in February, 1900. In April 

 of that year he began service with the 

 Pennsylvania Department of Forestry as a 

 Slate Forester. In 1903 he was placed in 

 charge of the State Forest Academy and 

 had charge of it, together with the Mont 

 Alto State Forest, until May, 1910. At that 

 time he was sent to Harrisburg and placed 

 in charge of the work of inspecting private 

 tracts and assisting private individuals in 

 the handling of their woodlots, together 

 with other miscellaneous technical and 

 office work. 



Wisconsin's New Forester 



Professor F. B. Moody, for the past two 

 years extension professor in forestry at 

 Cornell, has taken up his new duties as a 

 member of the forest, fish, and game com- 

 mission of the State of Wisconsin. By 

 this action he becomes not only a member 

 ui the commission, but the State Forester, 

 succeeding E. M. Griffith, who recently 

 resigned. 



Professor Moody went to Cornell from 

 Wisconsin, where he was a member of the 

 State Forestry staff, and it is stated that 

 hi-; thorough familiarity with Wisconsin 

 conditions led to his choice as a member 

 of the Wisconsin comniission. While he is 

 being congratulated on the new oppor- 

 tunity, great regret at his leaving is ex- 

 pressed by his colleagues at the State 

 college of agriculture, where he has been 

 one of the most popular members of the 

 forestry faculty. 



He has been closely in touch with the 

 lumbermen, and particularly with the farm- 

 ers, of the State in his woodlot demonstra- 

 tions, and has been commended for his 

 sound common sense on forestry problems 

 and his practical familiarity with them. 



Professor Moody's successor in the ex- 

 tersion work in forestry has not yet been 

 chosen, and probably will not be selected 

 until the members of the Forestry School 

 return from the Adirondacks. The activi- 

 ties of the entire school have been trans- 

 ferred to an Adirondack logging operation, 

 where the Senior Class is now securin.g 

 practical training in woods work. 



