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action in the southern section of the new Glacier National Park, and 

 the Forest wService will take up the work \\ithin the Flathead and 

 Blackfeet National Forests during the coming year. This work, in 

 addition to the work of private owners, should effectually check the 

 insects throughout the whole area, and thus end the losses of timber 

 which have been progressing in this general region during the past 

 ten years at a death rate of at least 200,000 trees annually. 



During the close of the year there has been organized the most 

 extensive cooperative project for the control of bark-beetle injury 

 that has ever been undertaken in this country. This is in north- 

 eastern Oregon and western Idaho, and involves an area of over 

 13,000 square miles. It is undertaken through cooperation between 

 the Bureau of Entomology, the Forest Service, and private owners, 

 and provides that the experts of the Bureau of Entomology shall 

 make investigations of the insects, recommend methods of procedure, 

 and give special instructions and advice and essential details, while 

 the Forest Service and the timber owners provide the funds necessary 

 for actual control operations. It is expected that this work will pre- 

 vent the further loss of timber which has been going on during the 

 past five or six years at an estimated value of nearly a million trees 

 per year. 



IXSPECTIOX WORK. 



In my last report attention was called to the widespread introduc- 

 tion of the winter nests of the brown-tail moth upon apple and pear 

 seedlings coming to the United States from portions of France, and 

 an account was given of the methods adopted to secure the inspection 

 of all imported material of this class at the point of ultimate destina- 

 tion. During the autumn and winter of 1909 similar injurious intro- 

 ductions constantly occurred. Very many nests of the brown-tail 

 moth were brought in in this way, and an eg^i; cluster of the gipsy 

 moth was found upon stock sent from Belgium to Louisiana. By an 

 especial arrangement with the Secretary of the Treasury, with the 

 custom-houses, and with the railroads, the Bureau of Entomology 

 was notified of all cases of plants received, and, as in the previous 

 autumn and winter, the inspection of probably every shipment was 

 secured at the point of ultimate destination. Shipments of nursery 

 stock to the number of 291 were found infested with nests of the 

 brown-tail moth, and these went to Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, 

 New York, Ohio, and \'irginia. In most of these States inspection 

 was rendered simple by the fact that there were efhcicnt state inspec- 

 tion laws and efTicient inspectors. Notification in such cases from 

 the Bureau was all that was necessary. In other cases, where there 

 was no such state service, the inspection was carried on either by 



