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ade the following nun 

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city, made the following number of calls, or given advice as 



Calls made 10 



Advice by telephone 12 



Advice by letter 8 



Calls at Nursery for advice 13 



Collection of Seed. 



The seeding season is Just coming- in and we are busy col- 

 lecting seed of all the available species to be found in and 

 around Honolulu and on Tantalus. 



Respectfully yours, 



David Haughs, 

 Forest Nurseryman. 



A wood specimen found in glacial drift and estimated by the 

 Wisconsin state geologist to be approximately half a million years 

 old has been identified by the forest products laboratory of the 

 forest service as spruce. 



The estimated lumber cut in California for 1916 was 1,420.- 

 000,000 feet b. m. This is thought to be the largest cut for any 

 one year in the history of the State, and is 290,000,000 feet more 

 than the estimated cut in 1915. 



State forests with a total of over 3,600,000 acres have been 

 established in thirteen States. Of these New York has the larg- 

 est forests, which comprise 1,826,000 acres; Pennsylvania is 

 second with 1,008,000 acres, and Wisconsin third with 400,000 

 acres. 



An office primarily for the handling of suggestions from the 

 public has been added to the forest service organization in San 

 Francisco. This office will be conducted along the same line as 

 similar offices in railroad, telephone, steet car companies, and 

 other large public service corporations. It will give special con- 

 sideration and investigation to all suggestions for the betterment 

 of the service rendered on the national forests. 



In its campaign to make the national forests in California ac- 

 cessible and inviting as recreation regions, the forest service is 

 planning to spend $6000 this summer in clearing the grounds and 

 establishing camping places on the most traveled roads wathin 

 the national forests. The improvements planned include suitable 

 sanitation equipment, and signs along the highw^ays that will 

 call the attention of the public to the camps. 



