426 State Horticultural Society. 



FORESTRY. 



THE YOSEMITE PAKK. 



Acting Superintendent Wilcox, of the Yosemite Xational Park, in 

 his annual report, recommends that the government buy out the owners 

 of patented lands within the park limits to remove one great source of 

 trouble and destruction. 



Other recommendations are the fixing of penalties for violation of 

 the park regulations; obtaining authority from the state of California to 

 establish a camp for troops within the Yosemite Valley for patrol pur- 

 poses, a permanent camp to be constructed at Wawona; a systematic 

 burning of fallen and dead timber, to prevent forest fires; and some de- 

 cisive action to prevent diverting the waters flowing into the park. The 

 I'cport says the deer ^vithin this government reserve are fairly plentiful 

 and tame; bear, quail, squirrels and trout are numerous, and mountain 

 lions and lynx are in evidence. 



THE PROPOSED A^ATIO^'AL PARK OF THE SOUTH. 



Little by little the feeling for forest preservation is gaining ground. 

 It is the south now. 



The work in behalf of forestry preservation that has been under- 

 taken in the west and the north has given rise to the idea of a similar 

 movement in the south, where the work of denuding the forests is in such 

 rapid progress as to threaten their utter destruction in a short time unless 

 something is done to stop it. The despoiling of the trees would make 

 the land comparatively valueless. 



Congress, when it meets next week, will l)e asked to look with favor 

 upon the request of the people of the south for the establishment of a 

 national park in the southern Alleghenies, probal)ly in the Blue Ridge 



