Ii8 Forestry Quarterly. 



Examinations will be held in different parts of the United States 

 on May 5. For detailed information apply to Bureau of For- 

 estry, Washington, D. C. Appointees from the United States are 

 reimbursed after six months' service for traveling expenses from 

 their homes to San Francisco. Half salaries begin on date of 

 embarkation at San Francisco, and expenses of sea voyage paid 

 on arrival at Manila. Foresters and Inspectors having from one 

 to two and one-half years' service in the Islands find the field 

 work very attractive, instructive and healthful. 



The Philippine governing authorities are strong advocates of 

 rational forestry. The laws protect the public timber lands 

 (more than forty million acres) from speculators. All of this 

 combines to assure success to the Philippine forest service. 



PHILIPPINE PROMOTION. 



Mr. William M. Maule, N.Y.C.F., ex-'o3, formerly Inspector 

 in the Philippine Forestry Service, has been promoted to Forester. 



TO SAVE THE FORESTS. 



The Federal ofl&cers in charge of the Northwestern forest reser- 

 vations, including Forestry Superintendent Sheller, have just 

 drafted two important bills for passage by the coming Legislature, 

 with the object of preserving the Puget Sound timber supply. 

 The first of the bills applies to State granted lands and will pro- 

 vide for their protection by a system of supervisors and rangers, 

 in the same manner as the Government reserves are now protected 

 by Federal rangers. The two systems of rangers can work in 

 conjunction, thus policing a large portion of the State forests. 



Superintendent Sheller finds that a great area of the State's 

 timber is annually destroyed by fire, there being no eflScient 

 means, under the present State laws, of apprehending or punish- 

 ing persons responsible for these fires. 



The object of the second bill is to secure an appropriation for 

 the purchase by the State of the logged-off lands which, on ac- 

 count of unpaid taxes, have reverted to the various counties of 

 the State. Superintendent Sheller believes the State should buy 

 these lands and inaugurate an extensive system of reforestation. 

 Ownership by the State will exempt them from taxation. — Wood 

 and Iro7i, Jamcary. 



