CURRENT LITERATURE AND REVIEWS. 



Forest Reserve Manual for the Information and Use of Forest 

 Officers. Department of the Interior. General Land Office, 

 pp. 90. By application at General Land Office. 



During- the past three years a strong movement has been made 

 toward improvement in the management and forest conditions in 

 the National Forest Reserves. The first step of importance 

 gained was the appointment last year of Mr. Filibert Roth as 

 Chief of the Division of Forestry, General Land Office. Mr. 

 Roth was formerly Professor of Forestry in the New York State 

 College of Forestry and a Special Agent in the Bureau of Forestry, 

 Department of Agriculture. As Special Agent he spent consid- 

 erable time in the Western Reserves and is thoroughly acquainted 

 with the existing conditions. 



Since Mr. Roth's appointment he has attempted a gradual 

 change in existing management by introducing technically edu- 

 cated men. The position of Head Ranger has been established. 



The Head Ranger is to act as the technical assistant to the For- 

 est Supervisor. He is appointed after having passed an exam- 

 ination tending to show his qualifications, experience and effici- 

 ency in forest work, especially in forest surveying, timber 

 estimating, scaling, logging methods and the principles of gen- 

 eral forestry. 



Two Head Rangers have already been appointed, also two 

 technically educated men to the office forces. 



The Forest Reserve Manual contains full instructions to all 

 Forest Officers in the service ; also copies of the rules and regu- 

 lations to which the reserves are subject, and of all the blanks 

 used in the administration, such as: Public Timber Sale, Free 

 Use of Timber and Stone, Report on Mining Claim, Report on 

 Grazing of Sheep. 



The maiuial is intended .solely as a handbook for the Reserve 

 officers, but will prove instructive to all interested in the reserves 

 and forest management problems in general. 



Sixth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Gayne Commission 

 of the State of Nciv York. pp. 532. Numerous colored 

 plates and half-tones. (By application to a senator.) 



The Commission, in its summary in this report, makes the fol- 

 lowing important recomniciulations to the Legislature : 



