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The Forest Service will welcome at any time corrections or additions 

 to these lists. It should be borne in mind, however, that such changes 

 will usually be made only when a new edition of a list is issued. 



The Atlantic Paper and Pulp Corporation is now building a pulp 

 mill at Port Wentworth, Ga., which will manufacture daily 50 tons of 

 sulphate pulp. The raw material will be secured from small timber, 

 waste slabs, and trimmings from the Port Wentworth Lumber Com- 

 pany's logging operations and sawmill plant. 



The District i supervisors' meeting was held January 29 to February 

 5. It was a very interesting meeting and many questions of policy 

 were discussed. The supervisors felt that they are an important fea- 

 ture of Service work and voted to hold them every two years. 



The supervisors recommended that action be taken so that men on 

 the forest assistant register could be appointed to the position of forest 

 ranger, and also so that questions in the forest ranger examination 

 should cover points of silviculture and grazing, leaving certain portions 

 of each optional. 



^Ir. Humiston, of the Potlatch Timber Protective Association, gave 

 a short talk on the relation of relative humidity to the fire season. He 

 is of the opinion that the danger is greatest when the relative humidity 

 is low. He stated that in parts of northern Idaho during the most 

 severe portion of the fire season that the relative humidity was lower 

 than that of the average for the Sahara Desert. 



The ranger conference held at the Saranac Nursery from February 5 

 to April I was enthusiastically indorsed by the men assigned. The 

 discussions at the conference were confined largely to the problems of 

 the field man, with special emphasis on questions of administration, 

 surveying, silviculture, and improvements. The chief criticism of the 

 men was that the time allotted for the conference was not sufficient to 

 cover the subjects thoroughly. The supervisors that have had men 

 detailed to the conference in the past believe it stimulates the men to 

 better efforts and lays the foundation for further study along special 

 lines. 



The extensive and intensive land classification work is now practi- 

 cally finished in District i, and the next big undertaking before the 



