FOREST NOTES 



77 



Essex — Benjamin S. Johnson, Lynn; 

 Franklin — ^W. B. Gaines, Greenfield; 

 Hampden — Samuel Bowles, Springfield; 

 Hampshire — Kenyon L. Butterfield, 

 Amherst; Middlesex— Mrs. Fred H. 

 Tucker, Newton; Norfolk— S. M. Weld, 

 Dedham; Plymouth— G. R. Briggs, 

 Plymouth; Suffolk— Edwin D. Mead, 

 Boston; Worcester — ^John E. Thayer, 

 Lancaster; Secretary, Harris A. Rey- 

 nolds, of Cambridge; Treasurer, Ernest 

 B. Dane of Brookline; members of the 

 executive committee, Frank A. Cutting 

 of Winchester; WilHam P. Wharton of 

 Groton; John S. Ames of North Easton; 

 trustee of the permanent fund, George 

 N. Whipple of Boston; auditor, H. 

 Wadsworth Hight of Winchester. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, Assistant 

 Professor of Forest Pathology of The 

 New York State College of Forestry, is 

 just completing the manuscript of a 

 monograph of the temperate species of 

 the genus Marasimais for publication in 

 North American Flora. 



The New York State College of 

 Forestry took over the College pubhca- 

 tion for one issue and has issued the 

 Forestry Number of the Syracuse 

 Orange. This edition contained a great 

 deal of data relating to Forestry in New 

 York State and the growth of the insti- 

 tution in particular. 



One of the most important resolu- 

 tions passed at the annual meeting of 

 the Western Forestry and Conserva- 

 tion Association at Tacoma, Wash., 

 in December was the following: 



"In view of the heavy expenses for 

 fire fighting the past season both on 

 private and National Forest lands, and 

 since such expenses have resulted in 

 the Federal Service expending an 

 amount in excess of its emergency ap- 

 propriation for. this purpose, we urge 

 upon Congress the need for such emer- 

 gency appropriation as will fully cover 

 the deficit incurred and for a liberal 



reserve emergency fund in the future. 

 We also urge that the government re- 

 frain from considering either this or 

 the regular annual appropriation for 

 national forest protection as calling 

 for any radical attempt — especiall dur- 

 ing periods of market depression when 

 such a policy would eft'ect further com- 

 munity injury, waste and utimate loss 

 to nation and to consumer — to force 

 the disposal of national forest timber 

 for purposes of immediate compensa- 

 tory revenue." 



In addition to his own fire detection 

 system, the supervisor of the Palisade 

 national forest, Idaho, was notified of 

 each fire by from five to ten different 

 local settlers, who thus showed their co- 

 operation in working for fire suppression. 



The Uinta mountains of Utah, in- 

 cluded within the Wasatch, Uinta, and 

 Ashley national forests, should become 

 a favorite recreation region, because of 

 the many small lakes within depressions 

 scooped out by glacial drifts. Seventy 

 such lakes can be counted from Reid's 

 Peak, and one particular township, 36 

 miles square, contains more than a 

 hundred. 



The Chilian Congress is seriously 

 discussing a revision of the forestry 

 laws of that country, with a view to 

 preserving the large area of forests 

 now in existence, and to increasing them 

 in the arid portions of the country 

 north of Valparaiso. In the last few 

 years large areas of forest lands have 

 been cleared for agricultural ptuposes, 

 and this clearing is still going on. 



Forest fires in Pennsylvania in 1914 

 caused darhage estimated at more than 

 $450,000, according to a simimary made 

 up by the State Department of forestry. 

 The summary shows that 241,486 acres 

 were bimied over and that it cost the 

 state more than $16,000 to extinguish 

 the fires. 



Uses of Black Locust 



Outside of its use for fence posts, black locust finds its principal utilization in insulator pins 

 and brackets for telegraph and telephone lines. 



