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ent holdings, as well as the agricultural conditions of the region indicated. The 

 investigation embraced the southern part of Virginia, southeastern West Virginia, 

 western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northwestern South Carolina, and north- 

 ern Georgia. As a result of the investigation it is reconunended that a large forest 

 reserve be established in this region under Federal supervision. As appendices, 

 reports are given by different individuals on the forests and forest conditions in the 

 Southern Appalachians; topography, geology, hydrography, and climate of the South- 

 ern Appalachians; and on the present status of the movement for the establishment 

 of the proposed Appalachian forest reserve. 



New forest reserves {Forestry mid Irrig., 8 {1902), No. 9, j). 351). — There have 

 been recently established 7 new forest reserves, of which the Mount Graham, Santa 

 Catalina, and Cb.iricahua occur in Arizona; the Madison and Little Belt Mountain 

 Reserve in ^Montana; the Lincoln Forest Reserve in New Mexico; and the Alexandria 

 Archipelagcj Reserve in southeastern Alaska. A number of changes have been made 

 in other reserves, and at present the total area of National forest reserves is 58,850,925 

 acres, or about 2.5 per cent of the entire area of the United States. 



The Michigan Forest Reserve, T. H. Sherrard {Forestry and Irriy., 6' {1902), 

 No. 10, pp. 404-411, fiys. 6). — The Michigan Forest Reserve includes about 60,000 

 acres of land about the headwaters of the Muskegon River. The geological formation 

 is described and the different types of forest are enumerated. Of these, 44 per cent 

 consist of oak forests, 39 of jack pine barrens, 11 of swamp lands, and 6 of hard- 

 wood lands. Based upon a survey of 100 acres, the average number of trees and the 

 volume of timber is estimated. In the jack pine planes the pine ju'edominates, and 

 in the oak forests scarlet oak forms half of the growth on the flats, and the red oak 

 and white oak about 60 jaer cent of the trees occurring on the ridges. The effect of 

 forest fires on this region is shown, and the present value of the timber is estimated. 

 For the protection of this reserve a form of organization is recommended, which 

 includes a superintendent and such assistants as would be necessary to control the 

 region. It is believed the whole annual cost would not exceed 5 cts. per acre. 



The management of Michigan hard-wood forests, W. C. Winchester {Fores- 

 try and Irriy., 8 {1902) , No. 10, pp. 411, 412). — An attempt is made to show why the 

 hard woods of Michigan are not lumbered so as to make possible continuous crops of 

 sawed timber. .The principal reasons assigned are the immediate profits that can be 

 realized in cutting the lands clean and the excessive taxation on timber lands, which 

 at present makes it unprotital)le to hold them for the second and subsequent crops. 



The jack pine plains of Michigan, F. Roth {Forestry and Irriy., 8 {1902) , No. 10, 

 pp. 413-416, Jigs. 2). — A description is given of the jack pine barrens Avhich are well 

 represented in Michigan and regions adjacent to the Great Lakes. These lands are 

 of poor quality and spai'sely settled. The cultivated lands are small in extent and of 

 low productive value. They are capable, however, of producing a good growth of 

 jack pine timbgr, and with systematic treatment could possibly be reforested with 

 still better s^iecies. It is believed that the abandoned farms and waste lands will be 

 reforested with jack pine and other species so that the character of the land will be 

 impr()\ed and a more certain crop secured. 



The protection of the New Hampshire forests {Forestry and Irriy., 8 {1902), 

 No. 10, pp. 396-398) . — A report is given of a meeting of the State Forest Association 

 of New Hami^shire at which stej)S were taken for the establishment of a forest reserve 

 in the White ^Mountain region. 



Forestry work on the South Mountain Reservation, G. H. Wirt {Forest 

 Leaves, 8 {1902), No. 9, p. 135). — At its spring meeting the Forestry Reservation 

 Commission of Pennsylvania decided to establish a forest nursery and white pine 

 plantation on the South Mountain Reservation in Franklin County, Pa. In this 

 region there are said to lie many acres of aliandoned farm land which are decreasing 

 in value each year and are believed to afford a splendid opportunity for the beginning 



